{"product_id":"white-negroes-isbn-9780807002735","title":"White Negroes","description":"\u003cb\u003eExposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people—and explores how this intensifies racial inequality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican culture loves blackness. From music and fashion to activism and language, black culture constantly achieves worldwide influence. Yet, when it comes to who is allowed to thrive from black hipness, the pioneers are usually left behind as black aesthetics are converted into mainstream success—and white profit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaving together narrative, scholarship, and critique, Lauren Michele Jackson reveals why cultural appropriation—something that’s become embedded in our daily lives—deserves serious attention. It is a blueprint for taking wealth and power, and ultimately exacerbates the economic, political, and social inequity that persists in America. She unravels the racial contradictions lurking behind American culture as we know it—from shapeshifting celebrities and memes gone viral to brazen poets, loveable potheads, and faulty political leaders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn audacious debut, \u003ci\u003eWhite Negroes\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly summons a re-interrogation of Norman Mailer’s infamous 1957 essay of a similar name. It also introduces a bold new voice in Jackson. Piercing, curious, and bursting with pop cultural touchstones, \u003ci\u003eWhite Negroes\u003c\/i\u003e is a dispatch in awe of black creativity everywhere and an urgent call for our thoughtful consumption.“Jackson is uncompromising in her bold language, palpable in her outrage; she keeps her razor-sharp analysis in an accessible but academic register.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A revelatory, well-argued work of cultural criticism.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A thoughtful addition to social science and African American studies collections.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Incisive and richly detailed. A vital text—one that offers new ways of seeing, hearing, and consuming.”\u003cbr\u003e—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of \u003ci\u003eThey Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWhite Negroes\u003c\/i\u003e 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”\u003cbr\u003e—Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of \u003ci\u003eThick\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLower Ed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lauren Jackson takes a topic you’ve heard debated ad nauseam on social media and breathes much-needed new life into it. \u003ci\u003eWhite Negroes\u003c\/i\u003e is engaging and laced with wit and intelligence.”\u003cbr\u003e—Ira Madison III, writer and podcast host\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e—Eve L. Ewing, author of \u003ci\u003eElectric Arches\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGhosts in the Schoolyard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With language laced with critical clarity, tempered outrage, radical snark, and researched detail, Lauren Michele Jackson’s \u003ci\u003eWhite Negroes\u003c\/i\u003e . . . 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.”\u003cbr\u003e—Greg Tate, author of \u003ci\u003eFlyboy in the Buttermilk\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eEverything but the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Michele Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University. Her writing about race and culture has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, among many other places. She lives in Chicago. Connect with her at laurjackson.com and on Twitter (@proseb4bros).","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299887894757,"sku":"NP9780807002735","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807002735.jpg?v=1767744125","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/white-negroes-isbn-9780807002735","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}