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Lanita Jacobs

Expert on African American culture, language and power, and inter-ethnic violence

Associate professor, USC Dornsife College

Contact at: (213) 740-1909 (office) or jacobshu@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • African American hair care
  • race and disability
  • traumatic brain injury and its cultural responses
  • African American stand-up comedy
  • hip-hop, rap and urban vernacular
  • African American English, Ebonics
  • African American responses to September 11th, Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq conflict
  • inter-ethnic conflict
  • black-on-black violence
  • cross-cultural communication and miscommunication
  • the representation of African Americans in TV and on film
  • professional language and jargon
  • the politics of authenticity in African American culture
  • gentrification
  • academic debates and controversies
  • African Americans in Los Angeles
Additional Information:
  • Recipient, National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development Grant, 2005
  • Recipient, James H. Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund grant, 2005
  • Recipient, Alpha Phi Alpha African American Women of USC Award, 2004
  • Recipient, Political Violence Initiative Teaching Grant, 2002
  • Recipient, USC Mini-Jumpstart Course Development Grant, 2002
  • Recipient, NICHD Minority Supplement (Research Consultant), 2001
  • Member, American Anthropological Association, American Studies Association, American Educational Research Association and American Humor Studies Association

More:
For more information go to:

https://college.usc.edu/lanita-jacobs