Ronald L. Jackson II

Ronald L. Jackson II (Ph. D., Howard University) is Associate Professor of Culture and Communication Theory in the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. He is author of The Negotiation of Cultural Identity  (Praeger Press), Think About It! (Iuniverse.com), African American Communication: Identity and Culture (with Michael Hecht and Sidney Ribeau; Erlbaum Publishers).  Forthcoming are five books entitled: African American Rhetorics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (with Elaine Richardson; Southern Illinois University Press); Scripting the Black Masculine Body in Popular Media: Identity, Discourse and Racial Politics in Popular Media (SUNY Press), Essential Readings in African American Communication Studies and Understanding African American Rhetoric (with Elaine Richardson).  Dr. Jackson’s theory work includes the development of two paradigms coined “cultural contracts theory” and "black masculine identity theory."  

Affiliations:

-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
-University of Cincinnati
-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

	Title	Lead Author/Editor	Pub Date	Price
	Black Pioneers in Communication Research	Ronald L. Jackson II	01-13-2006	$56.00
	Encyclopedia of Identity	Ronald L. Jackson II	06-29-2010	$390.00
	African American Communication & Identities Essential Readings	Ronald L. Jackson II	10-01-2003	$79.00