In a new book "White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation," Lauren Michele Jackson, a professor of English and African American studies at ...

In her new book, White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation, Dr. Laurene Michele Jackson analyzes the conversation around cultural appropriation ...

Digital blackface involves White people play-acting at being Black, says Lauren Michele Jackson, an author and cultural critic, in an essay for Teen Vogue. Jackson says the Internet thrives on ...

To appropriate in common parlance is to seize, to pillage, to colonize.1 Critic and scholar Lauren Michele Jackson presents appropriation more artfully. White Negroes, her new essay collection ...

The University of Chicago wants to revamp the city's Hyde Park neighborhood to benefit students. But that could change the area's local vibe—at the expense of the people of color who live there.

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In this op-ed, Lauren Michele Jackson tackles the recurring use of black people as reaction GIFs and its implications in terms of broader “digital blackface.” If you’ve never heard of the ...

Having a Child in the Digital Age' by Amanda Hess. Amanda Hess is "exceptionally skilled at noticing things worth seeing," ...

In a new book "White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation," Lauren Michele Jackson, a professor of English and African American studies at ...

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