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George Lipsitz

Lipsitz has worked extensively with community groups struggling for fair housing and with elementary and secondary school teachers and parents in campaigns for educational equality.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 31, 2005) -- The University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts welcomes George Lipsitz to campus Friday, April 1, to lecture on race in artistic expression.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at noon in 118 UK White Hall Classroom Building.

Lipsitz’s lecture is part of the college’s 2004-2005 Visiting Artist Series presented by UK’s Department of Art.

The lecture will focus on how artistic expressions from aggrieved groups, which include graffiti, murals, posters, low riders and break dancing, emerge from the realities and conditions produced by housing discrimination and segregation.

Lipsitz, a professor and chair of American Studies, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has worked extensively with community groups struggling for fair housing and with elementary and secondary school teachers and parents in campaigns for educational equality.

He is the author of seven books, including “American Studies in a Moment of Danger,” “The Possessive Investment in Whiteness,” “Time Passages” and “Dangerous Crossroads.” Lipsitz edits the “Critical American Studies” series for the University of Minnesota Press and is a co-editor of the “American Crossroads” series for the University of California Press. His articles have appeared in American Quarterly, Journal of American History, Cultural Critique, Comparative American Studies, and Cultural Anthropology.

For more information on the lecture, call the UK Art Department at (859) 257-8151.