John L. Jackson, Jr

John L. Jackson, Jr is the Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America; Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity; Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness; Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem; Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion, co-written with Cora Daniels; and Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment, co-written with Carolyn Rouse and Marla Frederick. His most recent films include Bad Friday: Rastafari after Coral Gardens, co-directed by Deborah A. Thomas, and Making Sweet Tea: The Lives and Loves of Southern Black Gay Men, co-directed by Nora Gross. Jackson is currently a faculty member at Penn’s Center for Experimental Ethnography and Collective for Advancing Multimodal Arts.