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Ronald L. Jackson II is an American academic and author. He is Past President of the National Communication Association and a professor of communication, culture, and media, and a former dean of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Early life and education Jackson is a native of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. He graduated from Covington Latin School, then proceeded to earn a BA in speech communication and an MA in organizational communication from the University of Cincinnati (UC) before going on to complete his PhD at Howard University in rhetoric and intercultural communication. Career Before arriving at UC, Jackson was a faculty member at Xavier University of Louisiana, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His research has focused on the communication dimensions of the prevention of prostate cancer among African-American men, and on differing global definitions of masculinity. He has authored or edited 16 books, including Gladiators in Suits: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Representation in Scandal, with Simone Puff and Kimberly Moffitt, Culturing Manhood, coauthored with Murali Balaji, and Marginalized Masculinities, with Jamie Moshin; and was previously editor of the journal Critical Studies in Media Communication. Works The Negotiation of Cultural Identity (1999) The Negotiation of Cultural Identity: Perceptions of European Americans and African Americans examines African-American and European-American students' identities through focus groups. Jackson's questions focus on similarities and differences between African Americans' and European Americans' cultural self-definitions, similarities and differences in their negotiations of cultural identity, the long-term consequences of cultural identity negotiation, and the conditions under which cultural identities are reconsidered. Jackson finds that European Americans' lives are largely unexamined in the cultural realm, whereas African Americans believed in the necessity of a strong cultural identity. Writing in the Journal of Communication, Heather Hartwig Boyd praised Jackson's approach and analysis as offering "useful insights about how respondents do or do not define their own cultures", but suggested that the focus group approach may not be "the most effective way to determine whether the respondents have experienced long-term consequences to identity negotiation." In the Quarterly Journal of Speech Felicia F. Jordan-Jackson praised Jackson's use of qualitative and quantitative methods and wrote that he "deserves to be commended for addressing such a timely and relevant topic." African American Communication (2003) African American Communication: Exploring Identity and Culture, coauthored with Michael Hecht and Sidney A. Ribeau, seeks to demonstrate why and how communication in interpersonal interactions between African Americans differs from that between European Americans. The authors argue that African-American identity, communicative competence, language style and relationship formation and maintenance are strategies adopted in order to navigate a dominant European power structure than inhibits cultural authenticity and access to power. The book won the 2003 National Communication Association African American Communication & Culture's Distinguished Scholarship Award. Understanding African American Rhetoric (2003) Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations is a collection of essays edited by Jackson and Elaine B. Richardson. Winner of the National Communication Association African American Communication & Culture's 2004 Distinguished Scholarship Award the book seeks to challenge Eurocentric assumptions in communication studies and to celebrate the African American rhetorical tradition, and covers topics including conceptions of African rhetoric as a rhetoric of community and resistance, a new orientation toward rhetoric centering oral discourse, and the politics of defining African American rhetoric. Cory L. Young, writing in the Southern Communication Journal, found the strength of the collection in its "broad range of essays that appeals to a wide variety of academic audiences, and its dialectical perspective and embrace of the "contradictions and tensions inherent in the labels African and American." African American Rhetoric(s) (2004) African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives is a collection of 14 essays edited by Jackson and Elaine B. Richardson, with an introduction by Keith Gilyard. Writing for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, R. B. Schuman described the book's insights as "disparate but important" and singled out Kali Tal's essay "From Panther to Monster", on the Black Power movement, for praise. Black Pioneers in Communication Research (2006) Black Pioneers in Communication Research, written by Jackson and Sonja M. Brown Givens, is the 2006 winner of the National Communication Association African American Communication & Culture Division's award for scholarly excellence. It is a one-of-a-kind collection of biographical and critical snapshots of black scholars in communication studies, including Molefi Kete Asante, Donald Bogle, Oscar H. Gandy Jr., and Stuart Hall. The authors argue that mainstream scholarship has failed to acknowledge the contributions of black thinkers. Bryant Keith Alexander, writing in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, praised the book's biographical sections, which "outline central components and values of African-based cultures" and described the book as a whole as "a much-needed volume for both young black scholars seeking a historical foothold ... as well as scholars seeking to understand the tone and tenure, the breadth and depth of scholarship written by black communication scholars". Scripting the Black Masculine Body (2006) In Scripting the Black Masculine Body: Identity, Discourse and Racial Politics in Popular Media Jackson uses approaches from intercultural communication and critical identity studies to argue for a "scripting" (see Behavioral script) of African American identities, especially with regard to the black male body. He focuses on black body politics in the Jim Crow era and contemporary productions of black masculinity in film, music and news broadcasts. This book won the 2007 National Communication Association International & Intercultural Communication Division award for best scholarly book. Writing for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, D. E. Magill described the book as "a significant contribution to the literature on masculinity studies, African American studies, and intercultural communications ... Highly recommended. Encyclopedia of Identity (2010) The Encyclopedia of Identity, edited by Jackson won the 2011 American Library Association's Outstanding Reference Source award. It is an encyclopedia .... Discover the Ronald L Jackson Ii Jamie E Moshin popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ronald L Jackson Ii Jamie E Moshin books.