Focusing on the work in our current exhibition, Betye Saar: Call and Response, Dr. George Lipsitz and Dr. Celeste- Marie Bernier discuss the themes of Saar’s work, their personal interactions with the artist, and how her art has influenced their work as scholars, teachers, critics, and art activists.
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Support provided by Art Bridges.
George Lipsitz is a research Professor Emeritus of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His thirteen single and co-authored books include The Possessive Investment in Whiteness (2018) and How Racism Takes Place (2011). Lipsitz is also the author of the chapter “Living Downstream: Fair Housing at Fifty” in the book The Fight for Fair Housing (2018) edited by Gregory Squires. He is a past board member of the Fair Housing Council of San Diego and of the National Fair Housing Alliance. Lipsitz was awarded the American Studies Association’s Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship in 2013 and its Bode-Pearson Prize for Career Distinction in 2016.
Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of United States and Atlantic Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She is the author and co-author of over 20 published and forthcoming books, essay collections, special issues, and scholarly editions and over 35 essays and book chapters. Her published and forthcoming books include African American Visual Arts; Characters of Blood; Suffering and Sunset; Stick to the Skin; If I Survive; Pictures and Power; Visualising Slavery; Inside the Invisible; Living Parchments; Battleground; The Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass Family Papers; Douglass Family Lives.
