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Lecture Will Explore Race Relations and Political Correctness10:11AM / Tuesday, February 10, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Professor John L. Jackson will speak on "Racism, Post-Raciality, and the Hidden Injuries of Colorblindness" on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center's Bronfman Auditorium.
The lecture will explore issues of race relations, contemporary popular culture, and political correctness.
Jackson is the Richard Perry university associate professor of communications and anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds joint appointments in Penn's Annenberg School for Communication and School of Art and Sciences and at Harvard Law School.
He was previously associate professor in the department of cultural anthropology at Duke University. Before joining Duke's faculty in 2002, Jackson was a junior fellow in Harvard's Society of Fellows.
He is the author of "Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Incorrectness" (2008), "Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity" (2005) and "Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America" (2001). Jackson has also written a number of essays and produced a number of feature films.
He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Award, the Lilly Endowment Fellowship and the National Humanities Center.
He received his bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1993 and his doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University in 2000. The lecture is sponsored by the Multicultural Center Lecture Series, Africana Studies, the Oakley Center, and Claiming Williams. It is free and open to the public. |
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