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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excerpted from White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue…And Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation by Lauren Michele Jackson (Beacon Press, 2019). Reprinted with permission from Beacon Press.

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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 ...

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 ...