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Jackson, Lauren Michele, 1991-
Subjects
American essays -- Women authors.
American essays -- 21st century.
Blacks -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States.
Cultural appropriation -- United States.
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Jackson, Lauren Michele, 1991-
American essays -- Women authors.
American essays -- 21st century.
Blacks -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States.
Cultural appropriation -- United States.
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White Negroes : when cornrows were in vogue ... and other thoughts on cultural appropriation /
Lauren
Michele
Jackson
.
by
Jackson
,
Lauren
Michele
,
1991-
Beacon Press, 2019.
Call #:
814.6 J124w
Subjects
American essays -- Women authors.
American essays -- 21st century.
Blacks -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States.
Cultural appropriation -- United States.
ISBN:
9780807011805 (hc.)
Description:
187 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Lauren
Michele
Jackson
teaches in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University. Her writing about race and culture has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Essence, the New Republic, Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone, and New York magazine, among many other places.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"Weaving together narrative, scholarship, and critique,
Lauren
Michele
Jackson
reveals why cultural appropriation—something that’s become embedded in our daily lives—deserves serious attention. It is a blueprint for taking wealth and power, and ultimately exacerbates the economic, political, and social inequity that persists in America. She unravels the racial contradictions lurking behind American culture as we know it—from shapeshifting celebrities and memes gone viral to brazen poets, loveable potheads, and faulty political leaders. An audacious debut, White Negroes brilliantly summons a re-interrogation of Norman Mailer’s infamous 1957 essay of a similar name. It also introduces a bold new voice in
Jackson
. Piercing, curious, and bursting with pop cultural touchstones, White Negroes is a dispatch in awe of black creativity everywhere and an urgent call for our thoughtful consumption."--From publisher.
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Essays.
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