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SUMMARY:John Edward Taylor Lecture: George Lipsitz (University of Califor
 nia\, Santa Barbara)\, "From Plessy to Ferguson: The Racialization of Ti
 me and Place"
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DESCRIPTION:Professor George Lipsitz\n"From Plessy to Ferguson: The Racia
 lization of Time and Place"\n\nPublic lecture (all welcome)\nBook throug
 h Eventbrite: http://plessytoferguson.eventbrite.co.uk\n\nThursday 21 Ap
 ril\, 5 - 7pm\nArts Lecture Theatre\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Lime G
 rove\, University of Manchester\n\nThe killing of Michael Brown in Fergu
 son\, Missouri in 2014\, along with the callous official responses to it
 \, exemplifies what by now has come to be a familiar pattern. Phobic fan
 tasies of monstrous Black criminality stand at the center of the politic
 al imaginary of the United States. They fuel a seemingly insatiable sadi
 sm in search of a story\, dismissing the testimony of the aggrieved befo
 re they even begin to speak. This is a legacy of slavery unwilling to di
 e\, an institutionalized mendacity enshrined in culture\, custom and eve
 n law as the Plessy v. Ferguson case illustrates. Yet this is no ordinar
 y time. Masses in motion mobilized under the banners of #BlackLivesMatte
 r and #SayHerName are forging an oppositional conjuncture based on colle
 ctive refusal of an unlivable destiny. They see attributing criminality 
 to Black people\, to immigrants\, to the homeless\, to immigrants\, to q
 ueer and transgender people\, to those in debt\, and to many others is a
  way of dividing society into two groups: the exceptional and the dispos
 able. The disposable control nothing but are blamed for everything. The 
 exceptional control everything and are blamed for nothing. Their struggl
 e is generating new ways of knowing and new ways of being that seek to r
 eorganize social relations from the bottom up.\n\nBiography George Lipsi
 tz is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of Cali
 fornia\, Santa Barbara. His publications include:\n How Racism Takes Pla
 ce (2011)\, Midnight at the Barrelhouse (2010)\, The Possessive Investme
 nt in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (2006)\,
  American Studies in a Moment of Danger (2001)\, A Life in the Struggle 
 (1995)\, Dangerous Crossroads (1994) and Time Passages (1990). Lipsitz i
 s senior editor of the journal Kalfou\, editor of the Insubordinate Spac
 es series at Temple University Press and co-editor of the American Cross
 roads series at the University of California Press.  He was awarded the 
 Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship by the American Studies Ass
 ociation in 2013. Lipsitz is president of the board of directors of the 
 African American Policy Forum and a member of the board of directors of 
 the Woodstock Institute.\n\nProfessor Lipsitz is a visiting Taylor Fello
 w in the Division of English\, American Studies and Creative Writing (EA
 C) at the University of Manchester.\n\nThis public lecture is co-hosted 
 by the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre. \n
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LOCATION:Arts Lecture Theatre\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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