Real Black
Adventures in Racial Sincerity
- Contents
- Review Quotes

2. Real Harlemites
3. Real Bodies
4. Real Jews
5. Real Publics
6. Real Natives
7. Real Emcees
8. Real Names
9. Real Loves
Notes
Index
“John Jackson’s brilliant excursion in search of ‘racial sincerity’ is, as the title implies, a true adventure. It is as fast-paced and engaging as a novel, witty, sympathetic, and lyrical. Tweaking the dilemma of the anthropologist’s gaze, he takes his field notebook into the heart of Harlem as ‘Anthroman’—and is received as part friend and long-term resident, part super-educated superhero, part comic book. This book is a splendid and fascinating study of what it means to be ‘real’—and not just when it comes to race.”--Patricia J. Williams, Columbia Law School
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Sociology: Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations | Theory and Sociology of Knowledge | Urban and Rural Sociology
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