Lauren Michele Jackson

Dr. Lauren Michele Jackson teaches in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University. Her first book, White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue… and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation, is due out by Beacon Press on November 12, 2019. Her work (research, criticism, essays, and—on occasion—poetry) has appeared in the Atlantic, the Awl, Complex, Feminist Media Studies, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal, New Republic, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, The Point, Rolling Stone, Spoon River Poetry Review, Teen Vogue, and Vulture among other places.