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. She lives in Chicago. Connect with her at laurjackson.com and on Twitter (@proseb4bros).
“Jackson is uncompromising in her bold language, palpable in her
outrage; she keeps her razor-sharp analysis in an accessible but
academic register.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A revelatory, well-argued work of cultural criticism.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A thoughtful addition to social science and African American
studies collections.”
—Library Journal
“Incisive and richly detailed. A vital text—one that offers new
ways of seeing, hearing, and consuming.”
—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill
Us
“White Negroes is a mature meditation for debates that have, at
times, wallowed in their own intellectual infancy. The collection
is witty, wry, and welcome. In the vein of Imani Perry and Zoé
Samudzi, this book is an excellent addition to critical thinking
about culture and contemporary racial orders”
—Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Thick and Lower Ed
“Lauren Jackson takes a topic you’ve heard debated ad nauseam on
social media and breathes much-needed new life into it. White
Negroes is engaging and laced with wit and intelligence.”
—Ira Madison III, writer and podcast host
“Miraculously, Lauren Michele Jackson is able to write about
cultural appropriation in a way that doesn’t make you want to drink
a glass of sand. She brings incredible nuance and a sharp critical
voice to a discussion that has sorely lacked both—yet somehow
emerges with a text that is as accessible as it is theoretically
relevant. Jackson avoids platitudes and easy answers, has a keen
eye for history and popular culture, and, moreover, she is
funny.”
—Eve L. Ewing, author of Electric Arches and Ghosts in the
Schoolyard
“With language laced with critical clarity, tempered outrage,
radical snark, and researched detail, Lauren Michele Jackson’s
White Negroes . . . eruditely connects the dots between such
disparate phenomena of the modern racial age as Eminem, Christina
Aguilera, Kim Kardashian, Rachel Dolezal, the fashion and cosmetic
industries, the Whitney Biennial, and the appropriation of ‘Bye
Felisha.’ In so doing, Jackson makes us wiser and even more
disturbed about how much stolen Black imaging and ideations matter
to the cultural, political, and economic maintenance of the
nation’s anti-Black status quo.”
—Greg Tate, author of Flyboy in the Buttermilk and editor of
Everything but the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black
Culture
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