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Feb 16, 2023 · “They told their story no matter what,” says Dr. Kern Jackson, the film’s co-writer and co-producer. Jackson is also a subject in the film since, as a longtime folklorist in Mobile and Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of South Alabama, he conducted many filmed interviews with Africatown residents over the ...
Oct 24, 2022 · The feature documentary Descendant, co-written and co-produced by Kern Jackson, won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Creative Vision at the Sundance Film Festival. Dr. Kern Michael Jackson is a folklorist with an extensive academic career in ethnography, oral history, material culture and literary folkloristics who holds a doctorate in ...
Kern Jackson. Director of the African American Studies Program. Specializes in African American and Southeastern United States folklore and oral narrative. Co-writer and co-producer of the documentary Descendant (dir. Margaret Brown, 2022).
Oct 31, 2022 · A professor at the University of South Alabama for 20 years, Dr. Kern Jackson is chair of the African American Studies Program at the university and studies folklore, myths, legends and oral...
Oct 23, 2022 · Dr Kern Jackson, an expert in African American studies at the University of South Alabama, in Descendant. Netflix
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TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE. Tenure, Department of English, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL (Summer 2010) Director, African-American Studies Program, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, (Summer 2005 – present).
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University of South Alabama’s Dr. Kern Jackson, director of African American Studies, will be recognized at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, held from Jan. 20 – 30 in Park City, Utah, for his powerful contributions to “Descendant,” a film about the 2019 discovery of the last known, illegal slave ship Clotilda and Africatown, a historic ...
