,
Lauren Michele Jackson

year in books

Lauren Michele Jackson’s Followers (177)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
Daphne
632 books | 108 friends

Phoebe ...
187 books | 26 friends

Julia (...
308 books | 150 friends

Chase
170 books | 19 friends

Laura
206 books | 27 friends

Heather...
190 books | 82 friends

Kevin O...
55 books | 28 friends

Dandi
3,132 books | 81 friends

More friends…

Lauren Michele Jackson

Goodreads Author


Website

Twitter

Member Since
July 2013

URL


Lauren Michele Jackson's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, Eater, Essence, New York magazine, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, and The Best American Food Writing 2018, among other places. Her first book, White Negroes, is a collection of critical essays on race and appropriation, forthcoming from Beacon Press in November 2019. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and teaches in the departments of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University. ...more

Average rating: 4.14 · 1,627 ratings · 256 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
White Negroes: When Cornrow...

4.14 avg rating — 1,631 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
An American Tale

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

Theory of the Gim...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Blithedale Ro...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Like Love: Essays...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 

Lauren’s Recent Updates

Lauren finished reading
Survival Is a Promise by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Rate this book
Clear rating
Lauren is on page 148 of 416 of Theory of the Gimmick
Theory of the Gimmick by Sianne Ngai
Rate this book
Clear rating
Lauren wants to read
Audition by Katie Kitamura
Audition
by Katie Kitamura (Goodreads Author)
Rate this book
Clear rating
Lauren is currently reading
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rate this book
Clear rating
Lauren entered a giveaway
Blackouts by Justin Torres
Blackouts
by Justin Torres (Goodreads Author)
5 copies available, ends on October 07, 2024 Enter to win »
Lauren finished reading
NW by Zadie Smith
Rate this book
Clear rating
Lauren is currently reading
NW by Zadie Smith
Rate this book
Clear rating
Lauren wants to read
A People's Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier
Rate this book
Clear rating
Lauren wants to read
In Tongues by Thomas Grattan
Rate this book
Clear rating
Lauren finished reading
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
Rate this book
Clear rating
More of Lauren's books…
Quotes by Lauren Michele Jackson  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“America fears anger from black people, has always feared anger from black people, considers black people angry even when something more like “despaired” or “fatigued” better suits the mood.”
Lauren Michele Jackson, White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue . and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

“It feels bad to wade in the repercussions of our behavior, it feels good to apologize and disavow and consider oneself exempt moving forward. But being online, being white, being online as a white person, means never being exempt. Antiracist as a noun does not exist. There's only people doing the work, or not. The person genuinely invested in the work doesn't run from discomfort but accepts it as the price of personhood taken for granted.”
Lauren Michele Jackson, White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

“Binding the disparate cultural touchstones in this book, appropriation runs on desire more than hatred, inattention more than intention.”
Lauren Michele Jackson, White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue . and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

“[W]e've been adjudicating inequality through cultural criticism. We have taught people who don't even care about feminism how to do this—how to analyze women and analyze the way people react to women, how to endlessly read and interpret the signs.”
Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“The freedom I want is located in a world where we wouldn't need to love women, or even monitor our feelings about women as meaningful—in which we wouldn't need to parse the contours of female worth and liberation by paying meticulous personal attention to any of this at all.”
Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“There's a limit, I think, to the utility of reading celebrity lives like tea leaves.”
Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“White people wanted to be white just as much as we did. They worked just as hard at it. They failed more often. But they could pass, so no one objected.”
Margo Jefferson, Negroland

“I hate when I'm supposed to be having fun and Race singles me out for special chores and duties.”
Margo Jefferson, Negroland




No comments have been added yet.