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 (NYU Press, 2016)^[18][19]

See also[]

• Chronicle of Higher Education

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