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Real Black
adventures in racial sincerity
By Jr, John Coffee & Jackson, John
- ISBN
- 978-0-22639-002-4
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 21, 2005
To more effectively delve into the "relationship between race and sincerity" and its implications for the academic and popular debates on who or what is "authentically" black, Duke University cultural anthropologist Jackson regularly assumes the guise of his alter ego, the "ethnographic superhero Anthroman," a cross between "Harry Potter and Huckleberry Finn." Billed as "part conspiracy theory, part rant, part novelistic storytelling, part autoethnography," Jackson's book provides discerning readers with a pro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
