{"product_id":"real-black-john-l-jackson-jr-9780226390024","title":"Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity","description":"New York's urban neighborhoods are full of young would-be emcees who aspire to \"keep it real\" and restaurants like Sylvia's famous soul food eatery that offer a taste of \"authentic\" black culture. In these and other venues, authenticity is considered the best way to distinguish the real from the phony, the genuine from the fake. But in \u003ci\u003eReal Black, \u003c\/i\u003e John L. Jackson Jr. proposes a new model for thinking about these issues--\u003ci\u003eracial sincerity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJackson argues that authenticity caricatures identity as something imposed on people, imprisoning them within stereotypes: an African American high school student who excels in the classroom, for instance, might be dismissed as \"acting white.\" On the other hand, sincerity, as Jackson defines it, imagines authenticity as an incomplete measuring stick, an analytical model that attempts to deny people agency in their search for identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on more than ten years of ethnographic research in and around New York City, Jackson offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that directly and indirectly address how race is negotiated in today's world--including tales of book-vending numerologists, urban conspiracy theorists, corrupt police officers, mixed-race neo-Nazis, and gospel choirs forbidden to catch the Holy Ghost. Jackson records and retells their interconnected sagas, all the while attempting to reconcile these stories with his own crisis of identity and authority as an anthropologist terrified by fieldwork. Finding ethnographic significance where mere mortals see only bricks and mortar, his invented alter ego Anthroman takes to the streets, showing how race is defined and debated, imposed and confounded every single day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John L. Jackson Jr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226390020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226390024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.14w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2006 pg. 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2006 pg. 568\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/21\/2005","brand":"John L. Jackson Jr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994821296383,"sku":"9780226390024","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3f222354-86e3-44b3-8d40-6ee0b0034028.jpg?v=1683332374","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/real-black-john-l-jackson-jr-9780226390024","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}