Lanita Jacobs‐huey
Biographic Data
| ID | 89075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lanita Jacobs‐huey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lanita |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs‐huey |
| SIGNATURE | HUEY L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Learning through the breach: Language socialization among African American cosmetologists
In this article, I analyze a series of breaches (Garfinkel, 1967) observed during an 18-month ethnographic study of an African American cosmetology school in South Carolina. Students, clients, teachers (and this author) committed endless verbal and nonverbal mistakes during everyday hair care encounters. They also employed an array of cultural and professional communicative strategies to resolve them. Their candid deliberations over what went wro…
From the Kitchen to the Parlor: Language and becoming in African American women's hair care
Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlours, Internet discussions, comedy clubs and other contexts to illuminate how and why hair matters in African American women's day-to-day experiences
The Arab Is the New Nigger
This article examines 9/11-related humor observed during a fifteen-month, pilot ethnographic study of African American urban stand-up comedy. Findings illuminate Black stand-up comedy as decidedly in-group contexts that afford multiple opportunities for intracultural deliberations around race, notions of truth and authenticity, and the state of the nation. Black stand-up comedy likewise presents a fitting stage through which to gauge African Amer…
Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Black America
Black/"Urban" Standup Comedy: A Performance by Brandon Bowlin (review)
As terrorism, fear, and violence unfold on the world stage, one might question the role of comedy in this tragic milieu. Can we laugh during times like this? What insights might we gain from humor in the wake of September 11 and the war in Iraq? Brandon Bowlin, a comedian from Pasadena, California, provides bold and hopeful answers to such questions in his standup comedy. His twenty-two-minute set at the Ha Ha Café skillfully weds politics and hu…
Remembering Chrissy: EnGendering Knowledge, Difference, and Power in Women's Hair Care Narratives
Ladies Are Seen, Not Heard: Language Socialization in a Southern, African American Cosmetology School
This article examines language socialization among African American cosmetology students. To constitute themselves as hair experts, freshman and senior students learn to distinguish between specialized and lay hair terminology, avoid loud talking, and ask clients' diagnostic questions. Students also reframe textbook metacommunicative theories using personal narrative, role-play, and "mother wit." Findings from this ethnographic and discourse anal…
The Natives Are Gazing and Talking Back: Reviewing the Problematics of Positionality, Voice, and Accountability among "Native" Anthropologists
In this article, a linguistic anthropologist reviews the growing literature on the possibilities and problematics of understanding "native" anthropology and its implications for the construction of ethnographic knowledge. The author examines the centrality of language for "native" scholars in negotiating their legitimacy in the field. Confessions of failure by native scholars and their dilemmas with translation illuminate the dialogic and politic…
Narrating September 11: Race, Gender, and the Play of Cultural Identities
This article considers the September 11 tragedy as an event that has created a powerful experience—an astonishing and unthinkable "breach" from the expected and routine—that has riveted the American public and provoked personal storytelling. September 11 and its aftermath have provided an occasion for rethinking and reworking cultural identity. We explore how September 11 and subsequent events have been experienced, constructed, and narrated by A…
The Natives Are Gazing and Talking Back: Reviewing the Problematics of Positionality, Voice, and Accountability among "Native" Anthropologists
In this article, a linguistic anthropologist reviews the growing literature on the possibilities and problematics of understanding "native" anthropology and its implications for the construction of ethnographic knowledge. The author examines the centrality of language for "native" scholars in negotiating their legitimacy in the field. Confessions of failure by native scholars and their dilemmas with translation illuminate the dialogic and politic…
Narrating September 11: Race, Gender, and the Play of Cultural Identities
This article considers the September 11 tragedy as an event that has created a powerful experience—an astonishing and unthinkable "breach" from the expected and routine—that has riveted the American public and provoked personal storytelling. September 11 and its aftermath have provided an occasion for rethinking and reworking cultural identity. We explore how September 11 and subsequent events have been experienced, constructed, and narrated by A…
The Arab Is the New Nigger
This article examines 9/11-related humor observed during a fifteen-month, pilot ethnographic study of African American urban stand-up comedy. Findings illuminate Black stand-up comedy as decidedly in-group contexts that afford multiple opportunities for intracultural deliberations around race, notions of truth and authenticity, and the state of the nation. Black stand-up comedy likewise presents a fitting stage through which to gauge African Amer…
Ladies Are Seen, Not Heard: Language Socialization in a Southern, African American Cosmetology School
This article examines language socialization among African American cosmetology students. To constitute themselves as hair experts, freshman and senior students learn to distinguish between specialized and lay hair terminology, avoid loud talking, and ask clients' diagnostic questions. Students also reframe textbook metacommunicative theories using personal narrative, role-play, and "mother wit." Findings from this ethnographic and discourse anal…
Learning through the breach: Language socialization among African American cosmetologists
In this article, I analyze a series of breaches (Garfinkel, 1967) observed during an 18-month ethnographic study of an African American cosmetology school in South Carolina. Students, clients, teachers (and this author) committed endless verbal and nonverbal mistakes during everyday hair care encounters. They also employed an array of cultural and professional communicative strategies to resolve them. Their candid deliberations over what went wro…
Remembering Chrissy: EnGendering Knowledge, Difference, and Power in Women's Hair Care Narratives
Black/"Urban" Standup Comedy: A Performance by Brandon Bowlin (review)
As terrorism, fear, and violence unfold on the world stage, one might question the role of comedy in this tragic milieu. Can we laugh during times like this? What insights might we gain from humor in the wake of September 11 and the war in Iraq? Brandon Bowlin, a comedian from Pasadena, California, provides bold and hopeful answers to such questions in his standup comedy. His twenty-two-minute set at the Ha Ha Café skillfully weds politics and hu…
The Natives Are Gazing and Talking Back: Reviewing the Problematics of Positionality, Voice, and Accountability among "Native" Anthropologists
In this article, a linguistic anthropologist reviews the growing literature on the possibilities and problematics of understanding "native" anthropology and its implications for the construction of ethnographic knowledge. The author examines the centrality of language for "native" scholars in negotiating their legitimacy in the field. Confessions of failure by native scholars and their dilemmas with translation illuminate the dialogic and politic…
Narrating September 11: Race, Gender, and the Play of Cultural Identities
This article considers the September 11 tragedy as an event that has created a powerful experience—an astonishing and unthinkable "breach" from the expected and routine—that has riveted the American public and provoked personal storytelling. September 11 and its aftermath have provided an occasion for rethinking and reworking cultural identity. We explore how September 11 and subsequent events have been experienced, constructed, and narrated by A…
Black/"Urban" Standup Comedy: A Performance by Brandon Bowlin (review)
As terrorism, fear, and violence unfold on the world stage, one might question the role of comedy in this tragic milieu. Can we laugh during times like this? What insights might we gain from humor in the wake of September 11 and the war in Iraq? Brandon Bowlin, a comedian from Pasadena, California, provides bold and hopeful answers to such questions in his standup comedy. His twenty-two-minute set at the Ha Ha Café skillfully weds politics and hu…
Remembering Chrissy: EnGendering Knowledge, Difference, and Power in Women's Hair Care Narratives
Ladies Are Seen, Not Heard: Language Socialization in a Southern, African American Cosmetology School
This article examines language socialization among African American cosmetology students. To constitute themselves as hair experts, freshman and senior students learn to distinguish between specialized and lay hair terminology, avoid loud talking, and ask clients' diagnostic questions. Students also reframe textbook metacommunicative theories using personal narrative, role-play, and "mother wit." Findings from this ethnographic and discourse anal…
Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Black America
From the Kitchen to the Parlor: Language and becoming in African American women's hair care
Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlours, Internet discussions, comedy clubs and other contexts to illuminate how and why hair matters in African American women's day-to-day experiences
The Arab Is the New Nigger
This article examines 9/11-related humor observed during a fifteen-month, pilot ethnographic study of African American urban stand-up comedy. Findings illuminate Black stand-up comedy as decidedly in-group contexts that afford multiple opportunities for intracultural deliberations around race, notions of truth and authenticity, and the state of the nation. Black stand-up comedy likewise presents a fitting stage through which to gauge African Amer…
Learning through the breach: Language socialization among African American cosmetologists
In this article, I analyze a series of breaches (Garfinkel, 1967) observed during an 18-month ethnographic study of an African American cosmetology school in South Carolina. Students, clients, teachers (and this author) committed endless verbal and nonverbal mistakes during everyday hair care encounters. They also employed an array of cultural and professional communicative strategies to resolve them. Their candid deliberations over what went wro…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works)