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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
. 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
.
Jackson was named as the Dean of the
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
effective
January 1
, 2019.
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
.
Works
Harlemworld: Doing
Race and Class
in Contemporary
Black America
Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity
Racial Paranoia: The
Unintended Consequences
of Political Correctness
Racial Paranoia and
Jeremiah Wright
The Chronicle of Higher Education
,
May 16
, 2008
Thin Description: Ethnography and
the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion
with
Cora Daniels
Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment
with
Carolyn Rouse
and
Marla Frederick