Research
African American Student Shares
Race, Gender, Humor, Disability, Mindfulness, Writing, Zora Neale Hurston, Anthropology, Ethnography, Love
Cultural Identities
African American Women
Language Socialization
International Society
Multiple Accountabilities
Language Politics
Black Women
Traumatic Brain Injuries
African American Children
Narratives Among African American Families
Methodological Insights
Brown Bag Speaker Series
Education Quarterly
Gender Research
Black America
John Jackson
Social Identity
List of Publications (42)
In 2018
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Jacobs, Lanita. 2018. "It's about to get real": Authenticating Apologies in Black Standup Comedy. Paper presented at the American Jewish Humor Conference (April 29), Columbia, SC.
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In 2017
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Jacobs, Lanita. 2017. "It's about to get real": Kevin Hart as a Modern-Day Trickster. Paper presented at Indiana University (October 20), Bloomington, IN.
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In 2015
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Jacobs, Lanita. 2015. On "Making Good" in a Study of African American Children with Acquired and Traumatic Brain Injuries. In R. Sanjek (Ed.) Mutuality: Anthropology's Changing Terms of Engagement (249-258).
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In 2012
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Encyclopedic Entries Jacobs, Lanita. 2012. Learning through the Breach: Language Socialization. In N. Seel (Ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning (1989-1992). New York: Springer.
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In 2011
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Jacobs, Lanita, Mary Lawlor and Cheryl Mattingly. 2011. I/We Narratives among African American Families Raising Children with Disabilities. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry 35(1): 3-25.
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Jacobs, Lanita. 2011. "The Arab is the New Nigger": African American Comics Confront the Irony and Tragedy of 9/11. In T. Gournelos and V. Greene (Eds.) A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Have Shaped Post-9/11 America (47-56). Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. [Reprint]
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2011. Learning through the Breach: Language Socialization among African American Cosmetologists. In S. Delamont (Ed.) Ethnographic Methods in Education, Volume 4 . London: Sage. [Reprint]
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2011. Into the Breach: Representing the Messy Truths of Black Women's Hair and Language Politics. In Sonja L. Lanehart (Ed.) African American Women's Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity (262-275). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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Jacobs, Lanita. 2011. "Can you feel me?": Race and Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy. Paper presented at the International Society for Humor Studies Conference (July), Boston, MA.
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In 2010
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2010. Negotiating Multiple Accountabilities & Positionalities in Boundary Crossing. Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Occupational Science Symposium (March), Los Angeles, CA.
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2010. Race and Authenticity in African American Obama Humor. Paper presented at the Post-Racial Turn "Memories" Workshop [in conversation with Dr. Nikhil Singh], (April), Northwestern University.
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In 2009
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2009. Moralizing Whiteness in Joan of Arcadia. In Diane Winston (Ed.) Small Screen Big Picture: Television and Lived Religion (233-258). Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.
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In 2008
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2008. Into the Breach: Representing the Messy Truths of Black Women's Hair and Language Politics.
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2008. Gender and Authenticity in African American Hair Humor. Paper presented at the 13th Annual Tillie K. Lubin Symposium, (February), Brandeis University.
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2008. Gender and Authenticity in African American Hair Humor. Paper presented at the Anthropology Brown Bag Speaker Series, (February), Saddleback College.
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In 2007
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2007. Learning through the Breach: Language Socialization among African American Cosmetologists. Ethnography 8(2): 171-203.
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In 2005
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2005. Ethnography of Performance: Methodological Insights from an African American Standup Comedy Study. Workshop presented at the 11th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization (LISO) Conference, (May), University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2005. (In Pursuit of) `Truth' and `Authenticity' in African American Standup Comedy. Plenary talk presented at the 11th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization (LISO) Conference, (May), University of California, Santa Barbara.
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In 2004
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2004. Remembering Crissy: enGendering Knowledge, Difference, and Power in Women's Hair Care Narratives. Transforming Anthropology 11(2): 30-42.
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In 2003
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2003. Examining the Politics of Representation in Language and Gender Research. Workshop presented at the COSWL/IGALA Perception & Realization in Language and Gender Research Conference (July), East Lansing, MI.
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In 2001
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2001. Epistemological Deliberations: Constructing and Contesting Knowledge in Women's Cross-Cultural Hair Testimonies. In Nancy Tuana and Sandi Morgen (Eds.) EnGendering Rationalities (335-359).
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Reviews Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2006c. Review of John L. Jackson, Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Black America , John L. Jackson (University of Chicago Press, 2001). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30(1): 709-711.
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2001. Language and Identity in African American Hair Care Settings: Reflections of a Linguistic Anthropologist. Paper presented to the Santa Monica College Anthropology Club (May).
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In 2000
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2000. Epistemological Deliberations: Constructing and Contesting Knowledge in Women's Cross- Cultural Hair Testimonies. Paper presented at the UCLA Department of Anthropology Colloquia, (December).
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In 1998
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 1998. We Are Just Like Doctors, We Heal Sick Hair: Cultural and Professional Discourses of Hair and Identity in a Black Hair Care Seminar. In Chalasani, Mani C., Jennifer Grocer and Peter Haney (Eds.)
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In 1997
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 1997. Is There An Authentic African American Speech Community?: Carla Revisited . Penn Working Paper Series in Linguistics, Vol. 4, No. 1: 331-370.
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Jacobs, Lanita. n.d. To Be Real: Truth in Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy, from 9/11 to Obama.
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Book under contract with Oxford University Press (anticipated 2019).
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2006a. From the Kitchen to the Parlor: Language and African American Women's Hair Care .
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Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Click to read Introduction or Chapter 2)
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Jacobs, Lanita. n.d. Revisiting "Hair": Unversed Scenes from the Kitchen to the Parlor. Forthcoming Essay in M. Bucholtz and K. Hall (Eds.) Parsing the Body: Language and the Social Life of Embodiment. Publisher pending.
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2006b. "The Arab is the New Nigger": African American Comics Confront the Irony and Tragedy of September 11. Transforming Anthropology 14(1): 60-64.
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2003a. "Ladies are Seen, Not Heard": Language Socialization in a Southern, African American Cosmetology School. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 34(3): 277-299.
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2002a. The Natives are Gazing and Talking Back: Reviewing the Problematics of Positionality, Voice, and Accountability among "Native" Anthropologists. American Anthropologist 104(3): 791-804.
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Mattingly, Cheryl, Mary Lawlor, and Lanita Jacobs-Huey. 2002b. Narrating September 11: Race, Gender, and the Play of Cultural Identities. American Anthropologist 104(3): 743-753.
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SALSA V: Proceedings of the 5 th Annual Symposium about Language and Society-Austin, TLF 39 (213-223).
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 1996a. Negotiating Social Identity in an African American Beauty Salon . In N. Warner et al.
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(Eds.) Gender and Belief Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Women in Language Conference. Berkeley (331-343). University of California, Berkeley Women and Language Group.
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 1996b. Negotiating Price in an African American Beauty Salon. Issues in Applied Linguistics, (June) Vol. 7, No. 1: 45-59.
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 2003b. Black/"Urban" Standup Comedy: A Performance by Brandon Bowlin . Theatre Journal 55(3): 539-541 (October).
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Jacobs-Huey, Lanita. 1996c. The Strands of Culture Woven in Our Hair: An African American Student Shares Her Experiences With One of Los Angeles' Finest Braiders. The Stylist Beauty Guide (March Edition).
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Paper presented at the African American Women's Language Conference, (March), University of Texas, San Antonio.
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