Jabari Asim (jabariasim.com) is Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the acclaimed author of What Obama Means: ...for Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future
http://www.amazon.com/What-Obama-Means-Politics/dp/0061711330/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232973564&sr=8-1
He is also the...
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Jabari Asim (jabariasim.com) is Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the acclaimed author of What Obama Means: ...for Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future
http://www.amazon.com/What-Obama-Means-Politics/dp/0061711330/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232973564&sr=8-1
He is also the author of the controversial The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why.
http://www.amazon.com/N-Word-Who-Can-Shouldnt/dp/0547053495/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232973669&sr=1-1
Asim is also Editor-in-Chief of the NAACP’s Crisis magazine. He is a nationally known cultural critic and former deputy editor of Washington Post Book World. The most influential African-American literary critic of his generation, he is a frequent commentator who has appeared on The Colbert Report, Hannity & Colmes, The Today Show, NPR’s Diane Rehm Show and many other media programs. His books include Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life, The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why, and several books for children. His children’s book Whose Toes Are Those? was chosen as a best book of 2006 by Child Magazine, Nick Jr. Magazine, and The Forward. His freelance writing has appeared in Ebony, Essence, Salon.com, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the New York Times and elsewhere.
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