Phyllis Jackson

Phyllis Jackson

In the summer of 1969, Phyllis J. Jackson dropped out of college and joined the Black Panther Party at the National Headquarters in Berkeley, California.  Today, she is an associate professor of art history at Pomona College, specializing in the arts, and cinema of Africa and the African diaspora.  Dr. Jackson continues the BPP legacy of “Each One, Teach One,” by offering mind-decolonizing courses, such as Black Aesthetics and the Politics of Representation, Whiteness: Race, Sex, and Representation, Black Women, Feminism(s) and Social Change, or Cinema Against War, Imperialism and Corporate Power.  She co-directed the 1996 documentary, Comrade Sister: Voices of Women in the Black Panther Party and is working a book entitled AutoBiography of an Image: A Black Woman’s Journey Through the Visual Landscape.

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