John L. Jackson Jr.

John L. Jackson Jr. is Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology, Professor of Africana Studies and Dean of University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice.[1] Prior to joining the faculty at Penn, he served as a junior fellow at Harvard University's Society of Fellows and taught cultural anthropology at Duke University.[2]

Jackson was named as the Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania effective January 1, 2019.[3]

Jackson graduated summa cum laude from Howard University. He has two master's degrees as well as a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University.[2]

Works

• Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2001)[4][5][6]
• Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity (University of Chicago Press, 2005)[7][8][9]
• Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness (Basic Civitas, 2008)[10][11][12][13]
• Racial Paranoia and Jeremiah Wright The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 16, 2008[14]
• Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (Harvard University Press, 2013)
• Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion with Cora Daniels (Atria at Simon & Schuster, 2014)[15][16][17]
• Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment with Carolyn Rouse and Marla Frederick (NYU Press, 2016)[18][19]

See also

• Chronicle of Higher Education

References

1. "John L. Jackson Jr. | Africana Studies". africana.sas.upenn.edu. University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 3 April 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
2. "John L. Jackson, Jr. Named to Dean Position at the University of Pennsylvania". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 2014-03-21. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
3. "John L. Jackson, Jr. Named Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication | Annenberg School for Communication". Archived from the original on 2018-02-06. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
4. "Nonfiction Book Review: HARLEMWORLD: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America by John L. Jackson, Jr., Author Univ. of Chicago $30 (299p) ISBN 978-0-226-38998-1". Publishers Weekly. September 24, 2001. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
5. Heynen, Nik; Moore, Toby; Smith, Jonathan M. (2005-03-01). "Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black Ameria. John L. Jackson; Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of City Redistricting. Joshua G. Behr; Place: A Short Introduction. Tim Cresswell". Urban Geography. 26 (2): 193–196. doi:10.2747/0272-3638.26.2.193. ISSN 0272-3638.
6. Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita (2003-03-01). "Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America". Journal of American History. 89 (4): 1623. doi:10.2307/3092702. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 3092702. Archived from the original on 2017-10-04.
7. Smalls, Krystal A. (2013-10-01). "Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity. A1 - John L. Jackson, Jr . Chicago, IL, and London, UK: PB - The University of Chicago Press , 2005. [vii] + 298 pp. (Cloth US$59.00; Paper US$20.00)". Transforming Anthropology. 21 (2): 205–207. doi:10.1111/traa.12015_6. ISSN 1548-7466.
8. Young, Reviewed by Vershawn Ashanti (2006-09-01). "A Review of: "Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity by John L. Jackson"". Souls. 8 (3): 204–206. doi:10.1080/10999940600890296. ISSN 1099-9949.
9. "Nonfiction Book Review: Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity by John L. Jackson, Jr., Author University of Chicago Press $20 (298p) ISBN 978-0-226-39002-4". Publishers Weekly. October 31, 2005. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
10. "RACIAL PARANOIA The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness: The New Reality of Race in America by John L. Jackson Jr". Kirkus Reviews. May 20, 2010. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
11. "Nonfiction Book Review: Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness by John L. Jackson, Jr., Author Basic $26 (274p) ISBN 978-0-465-00216-0". Publishers Weekly. February 11, 2008. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
12. Doss, Adeyemi (2010). "John L. Jackson, Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness". Black Diaspora Review. 1 (2): 39–41. ISSN 2334-1521. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26.
13. Withrow, Brian L. (2010-03-01). Book Review: Jackson, J. L. Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness New York, NY: Basic Civitas, 2008, 278 pp. Criminal Justice Review. 35. pp. 127–128. doi:10.1177/0734016809349168. ISBN 978-0465002160. ISSN 0734-0168.
14. Jackson Jr., John L. (May 16, 2008). "Racial Paranoia and Jeremiah Wright". The Chronicle of Higher Education: B5. Archived from the original on 25 July 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
15. "Nonfiction Book Review: Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion by Cora Daniels and John L. Jackson Jr. Atria, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-3911-3". Publishers Weekly. June 2, 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
16. Bass, Patrik Henry (2014-09-18). "She Say, He Say: Cora Daniels' Provocative New Book". Essence. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
17. "IMPOLITE CONVERSATIONS On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion by Cora Daniels ; John L. Jackson Jr". Kirkus Reviews. June 19, 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
18. Raymond, Emilie (January 2019). "Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment. By Carolyn Moxley Rouse, John L. Jackson, Jr., and Marla F. Frederick". Journal of Social History. 52 (3): 1011–1013. doi:10.1093/jsh/shx054.
19. Clay, Elonda (September 26, 2017). "Televised Redemption". Reading Religion. Archived from the original on 1 March 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.