J L Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 17937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J L Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | J L |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8064-6375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 200 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sincerity, Anthropology, and the Ongoing Adventures of Anthroman: A Reply
The Mystery of Black Rice: Food, Medicinal, and Spiritual Uses of Oryza glaberrima by Maroon Communities in Suriname and French Guiana
During plantation slavery, African rice (Oryza glaberrima Steud.) was widely cultivated in the Americas but was soon replaced by Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.). Maroons, descendants of Africans who escaped slavery in Suriname and French Guiana, continue to cultivate African rice. Genomic research linked this rice to an O. glaberrima variety in the Ivory Coast. Based on interviews with 99 Maroon farmers, of whom 23 cultivate black rice, we describe …
Challenges and Opportunities to Recruiting and Engaging with Gay Male Latino Sexual Assault Survivors
There is a paucity of empirical literature examining the experiences of gay Latino sexual assault survivors in the United States, due in part because there is little research focused on how to effectively recruit and engage Latino sexual assault survivors as participants in the research process. While researchers have utilized various recruitment methods to engage with gay Latino men, they have not focused specifically on sexual assault survivors…
Toward a Certain Kind of Critical Urban Anthropology
The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America
Clearing tables, dancefloors, and record stacks: An afterword
Blastmaster KRS-One first piqued my interest in Africana Hebrewisms. The boom-bap, boom-bap, boom-bap of drum machines’ staccato incantations served as an acoustic backdrop for his poetic formulati
Etnografia é, etnografia não é
Usando uma noção de "digital" como uma de suas metáforas principais, uma versão do termo que se apoia na discussão de Kara Keeling sobre o "humanismo digital", este texto argumenta que há algo sobre as não-linearidades que definem a diferença da digitalidade que pode nos ajudar a pensar sobre recalibragens no próprio projeto etnográfico. De uma discussão da representação fílmica de Marlon Riggs de sua própria morte (como uma maneira de falar sobr…
Why do we read the classics
Debates on the epistemological, ethical, and historical constitution of the anthropological corpus are one of the reasons why anthropology has always thrived. Whether in terms of the complex relation between the production of anthropological knowledge and the political systems in which it takes place, or the proliferation of the language of "mutual constitution" as a way to bypass questions of causality, the question of the "suffering" vs. the "g…
Lights, Camera, Police Action
The piece discusses race and criminal justice in the context of recent videotaped cases of young black men dying at the hands of police officers
Ethnography Is, Ethnography Ain’t
Theorizing Production/Producing Theory (Or, Why Filmmaking Really Could Count as Scholarship)
Using some recently taught 'production' courses as models and provocations, this essay addresses an age-old question about how the links between 'theory' and 'practice' might best be understood. Arguing against any overly reified or absolute distinction between those two afore-mentioned spheres, the piece describes some of the most valuable points of convergence and irreducibility that mark their complicated connections within both academic circl…
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Interpretation
After they had learned exploration skills, 128 undergraduate helping skills students were taught to use the insight skill of interpretation. After training, students had higher self-efficacy for using interpretation and were rated by both themselves and volunteer clients as using interpretation more often. Students in a delay condition did not change over a comparable period of time in which they received no training in interpretation. Self-effic…
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Immediacy
After they had learned exploration skills, 132 undergraduate helping skills students were taught to use the insight skill of immediacy. After training, students increased in self-efficacy for using immediacy, and catharsis and cohesion increased among lab group members. Students who completed training first (nondelay) had higher self-efficacy post-training than those in a delay condition before they had training. Self-efficacy for immediacy incre…
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Insight Skills: Integrating the Results of Three Studies
We compare the results of a series of studies (Chui et al., Jackson et al., and Spangler et al.) investigating the effects of training undergraduate students in helping skills courses to use insight skills (immediacy, challenges, interpretation) after they had learned exploration skills. A comparison of students and instructors indicated similarity across the samples. Increases in self-efficacy for the target skill were found across all studies. …
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Insight Skills: Overview of the Rationale, Methods, and Analyses for Three Studies
We briefly review the literature on helping skills training. We then provide a rationale for the current series of studies, given methodological problems and a lack of focus on teaching insight skills in the previous literature. Next, we provide an overview of the rationale, methods, and analyses used in common across three studies conducted to teach insight skills (immediacy, challenges, and interpretation, respectively) to undergraduate student…
Editing the Visual Anthropology Section ofAmerican Anthropologist: A Brief Statement from the Incoming Editors
The Strange Immortalities of Race
One of the ways in which some people talk about black Jewishness, especially some black people who aren't Jewish, is to disparage it––to frame it as yet another way that their race-mates try, vainly, to deny an undeniable blackness. (This is not unlike the joke about every African American claiming to have Cherokee ancestors somewhere in their family tree.) Leo Felton, the biracial neo-Nazi skinhead who had to pretend to be “southern Italian” so …
Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are often dismissed as a fringe cult for their beliefs that African Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites and that veganism leads to immortality. But John L. Jackson questions what "fringe" means in a world where cultural practices of every stripe circulate freely on the Internet. In this poignant and sophisticated examination of the limits of ethnography, the reader is invited into the vis…
Black Israelites: DNA and then Some
Ethnography Is, Ethnography Ain't
Using a notion of "the digital" as one of its master metaphors, a version of the term reliant on Kara Keeling's discussion of "digital humanism," this piece argues that there is something about the nonlinearities defining digitality's difference that might help us to think about recalibrations in the ethnographic project itself. From a discussion of Marlon Riggs's filmic depiction of his own death (as one way to talk about the nondigital) to a ma…
Return of the reflexed: Film-Making and the Aesthetics of Social Science
Attachment and mental and physical health: Self-compassion and mattering as mediators.
Research shows a strong link between adult attachment and mental and physical health, but little is known about the mechanisms that underlie these relationships. The present study examined self-compassion and mattering, two constructs from positive psychology literature, as potential mediators. Using survey data from a sample of 208 college students, relationships among attachment, self-compassion, mattering, and functional health were explored. …
Hbo's Utopian Realism: Down in the Treme
Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem
Journal Article Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem Get access Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem, by ZAIN ABDULLAH. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, 294 pp.; $35.00. John L. Jackson, Jr. John L. Jackson, Jr. University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 72, Issue 4, Winter 2011, Pages 488–490, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srr058 Published…
Race, Language, and Diaspora
Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are often dismissed as a fringe cult for their beliefs that African Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites and that veganism leads to immortality. But John L. Jackson questions what "fringe" means in a world where cultural practices of every stripe circulate freely on the Internet. In this poignant and sophisticated examination of the limits of ethnography, the reader is invited into the vis…
An Ethnographic Filmflam: Giving Gifts, Doing Research, and Videotaping the Native Subject/Object
Using the discussion of self-reflexivity as an organizing principle, this article examines how mobilizing digital video technology during fieldwork opens up empirical and theoretical space for reconceptualizing the relationship between anthropologists and informants. Placing the field of visual anthropology into critical conversation with long-standing theoretical arguments about the objectivist limitations of native anthropologists, I argue that…
On Ethnographic Sincerity
This essay posits sincerity and humor as linked ways of politicizing the interactions that underpin all ethnographic encounters. This politicization is contrasted with conventional anthropological preoccupations with authenticity (and fetishizations of ethnographic writing), and it demands attention to the human bodies that constitute ethnographic intersubjectivity. Combining a discussion of Habermas's public sphere with the exploits of a ninetee…
Ethnography Is, Ethnography Ain't
Using a notion of "the digital" as one of its master metaphors, a version of the term reliant on Kara Keeling's discussion of "digital humanism," this piece argues that there is something about the nonlinearities defining digitality's difference that might help us to think about recalibrations in the ethnographic project itself. From a discussion of Marlon Riggs's filmic depiction of his own death (as one way to talk about the nondigital) to a ma…
Why do we read the classics
Debates on the epistemological, ethical, and historical constitution of the anthropological corpus are one of the reasons why anthropology has always thrived. Whether in terms of the complex relation between the production of anthropological knowledge and the political systems in which it takes place, or the proliferation of the language of "mutual constitution" as a way to bypass questions of causality, the question of the "suffering" vs. the "g…
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Insight Skills: Integrating the Results of Three Studies
We compare the results of a series of studies (Chui et al., Jackson et al., and Spangler et al.) investigating the effects of training undergraduate students in helping skills courses to use insight skills (immediacy, challenges, interpretation) after they had learned exploration skills. A comparison of students and instructors indicated similarity across the samples. Increases in self-efficacy for the target skill were found across all studies. …
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Immediacy
After they had learned exploration skills, 132 undergraduate helping skills students were taught to use the insight skill of immediacy. After training, students increased in self-efficacy for using immediacy, and catharsis and cohesion increased among lab group members. Students who completed training first (nondelay) had higher self-efficacy post-training than those in a delay condition before they had training. Self-efficacy for immediacy incre…
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Insight Skills: Overview of the Rationale, Methods, and Analyses for Three Studies
We briefly review the literature on helping skills training. We then provide a rationale for the current series of studies, given methodological problems and a lack of focus on teaching insight skills in the previous literature. Next, we provide an overview of the rationale, methods, and analyses used in common across three studies conducted to teach insight skills (immediacy, challenges, and interpretation, respectively) to undergraduate student…
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Interpretation
After they had learned exploration skills, 128 undergraduate helping skills students were taught to use the insight skill of interpretation. After training, students had higher self-efficacy for using interpretation and were rated by both themselves and volunteer clients as using interpretation more often. Students in a delay condition did not change over a comparable period of time in which they received no training in interpretation. Self-effic…
Lights, Camera, Police Action
The piece discusses race and criminal justice in the context of recent videotaped cases of young black men dying at the hands of police officers
Pass·ed Performances: An introduction
In Medias Race (And Class): Post-Jim Crow Ethnographies of Black Middleclassdom
Race is the modality in which class is lived" (Hall et al., 1978, p. 394). That's how Stuart Hall evocatively put it, emphasizing the extent to which class relations can actually and substantively "function as race relations" for working class Black Brits (and others). He was arguing, amongst other things, against the neatly reified distinctions scholars traditionally policed between class-based analyses and racial ones
Racialized Publics
Some Skeletal Remains in Saskatchewan
The skeletal remains described in this report were found by Pius Fischer on November 14, 1936, as gravel was being dug from a pit near the town of Bradwell, Saskatchewan, for highway purposes. The find was reported to the R. C. M. Police, and Detective Sergeant F. W. Davis kindly mentioned the matter to Dr. Vigfusson, who proceeded a week later to the site of the find with Professors Jackson, Edmunds and Spinks. Unfortunately, by that time the gr…
Black Israelites: DNA and then Some
Decolonizing the Filmic Mind: An Interview with Haile Gerima
Decolonizing the Filmic Mind:An Interview with Haile Gerima John L. Jackson Jr. (bio) I received my undergraduate degree from Howard University in the spring of 1993, and I was lucky enough to take one of my final courses, Film Directing, with award-winning filmmaker Haile Gerima. His critically-acclaimed motion picture, Sankofa, was released that same semester, which meant that he gave our class a real-world education in the stresses and strains…
All Yah's Children: Emigrationism, Afrocentrism, and the Place of Israel in Africa
Cet article évoque l'histoire de l'émigration des « Israélites africains hébreux de Jérusalem », un groupe d'Africains-Américains qui ont quitté les États-Unis pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest (puis pour l'Afrique du Nord-Est) à la fin des années 1960. Leur voyage reposait sur une forme de sensibilité afrocentriste, sur un mélange de réponses à l'appel de Marcus Garvey pour une politique centrée sur l'Afrique, et de revendications d'une altérité africai…
Toward an ethnography of a quotation-marked-off place
(1999). Toward an ethnography of a quotation‐marked‐off place. Souls: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 23-35
Some Skeletal Remains in Saskatchewan
The skeletal remains described in this report were found by Pius Fischer on November 14, 1936, as gravel was being dug from a pit near the town of Bradwell, Saskatchewan, for highway purposes. The find was reported to the R. C. M. Police, and Detective Sergeant F. W. Davis kindly mentioned the matter to Dr. Vigfusson, who proceeded a week later to the site of the find with Professors Jackson, Edmunds and Spinks. Unfortunately, by that time the gr…
Social, Economic, and Institutional Aspects of Agro-Forestry
Yo' Mama's Disfunktional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America
Yo' Mama's Disfimktional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America. Robin D. G. Kelley. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. 225 pp. (Cloth US$22.00)
Party Politics…The Two Party System
Toward an ethnography of a quotation-marked-off place
(1999). Toward an ethnography of a quotation‐marked‐off place. Souls: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 23-35
Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America
Abandoning Advertisements Over Edificial Ekphrases
An Ethnographic Filmflam: Giving Gifts, Doing Research, and Videotaping the Native Subject/Object
Using the discussion of self-reflexivity as an organizing principle, this article examines how mobilizing digital video technology during fieldwork opens up empirical and theoretical space for reconceptualizing the relationship between anthropologists and informants. Placing the field of visual anthropology into critical conversation with long-standing theoretical arguments about the objectivist limitations of native anthropologists, I argue that…
Pass·ed Performances: An introduction
Postrace 101: Teaching and Unteaching Race in America's High Schools
There are some telltale signs that we might really be living in the kind of moment that academic provocateurs have labeled "postracial" (i.e., indifferent to historically self-evident expectations about race relations and race-based identifications): Duke lacrosse players, all of them White, who taunt a Black collegian-cum-stripper with carefully crafted quips better suited for a comedy club than a Klan rally ("Thank your grandpa for my cotton sh…
Toward an Ethnographic Lingua Franca: Communication and Anthropology
There are many different tales that might be told about the distinct histories of Anthropology and Communication as mutually reinforcing fields of knowledge production, tales about what they have already learned from one another, the intellectual sparks their past contact has produced, and about what still needs to be cultivated at the scholarly nexus where those two disciplinary formations meet. If nothing else, extensive linkages between the co…
Politics and the Shifting Boundaries of Blackness
Signing On
Anthropology in a Time of Economic Crisis
Introducing the Executive Program Committee
Exhibits and Performance at the AAA Meeting
All Yah's Children: Emigrationism, Afrocentrism, and the Place of Israel in Africa
Cet article évoque l'histoire de l'émigration des « Israélites africains hébreux de Jérusalem », un groupe d'Africains-Américains qui ont quitté les États-Unis pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest (puis pour l'Afrique du Nord-Est) à la fin des années 1960. Leur voyage reposait sur une forme de sensibilité afrocentriste, sur un mélange de réponses à l'appel de Marcus Garvey pour une politique centrée sur l'Afrique, et de revendications d'une altérité africai…
Racialized Publics
The Issue of Whiteness
Race, Language, and Diaspora
Mileposts: “Without a History, You Remain a Mystery …”
Decolonizing the Filmic Mind: An Interview with Haile Gerima
Decolonizing the Filmic Mind:An Interview with Haile Gerima John L. Jackson Jr. (bio) I received my undergraduate degree from Howard University in the spring of 1993, and I was lucky enough to take one of my final courses, Film Directing, with award-winning filmmaker Haile Gerima. His critically-acclaimed motion picture, Sankofa, was released that same semester, which meant that he gave our class a real-world education in the stresses and strains…
On Ethnographic Sincerity
This essay posits sincerity and humor as linked ways of politicizing the interactions that underpin all ethnographic encounters. This politicization is contrasted with conventional anthropological preoccupations with authenticity (and fetishizations of ethnographic writing), and it demands attention to the human bodies that constitute ethnographic intersubjectivity. Combining a discussion of Habermas's public sphere with the exploits of a ninetee…
In Medias Race (And Class): Post-Jim Crow Ethnographies of Black Middleclassdom
Race is the modality in which class is lived" (Hall et al., 1978, p. 394). That's how Stuart Hall evocatively put it, emphasizing the extent to which class relations can actually and substantively "function as race relations" for working class Black Brits (and others). He was arguing, amongst other things, against the neatly reified distinctions scholars traditionally policed between class-based analyses and racial ones
Attachment and mental and physical health: Self-compassion and mattering as mediators.
Research shows a strong link between adult attachment and mental and physical health, but little is known about the mechanisms that underlie these relationships. The present study examined self-compassion and mattering, two constructs from positive psychology literature, as potential mediators. Using survey data from a sample of 208 college students, relationships among attachment, self-compassion, mattering, and functional health were explored. …
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