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Robert Jensen

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born

in The United States

July 14, 1958

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male

website

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html

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Social Sciences, Politics, Women & Gender Studies

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Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism and director of the Senior Fellows Honors Program of the College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin.
Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade. At UT, Jensen teaches courses in media law, ethics, and politics.
In his research, Jensen draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and power. Much of his work has focused on pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality and men’s violence, and he also has addressed questions of race through a crit...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 689 ratings · 111 reviews · 21 distinct works · Similar authors

	Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity 3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 2007	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2005	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity 3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice 3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream Fourth Printing 4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2001	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arguing for Our Lives: Critical Thinking in Crisis Times 4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siecle Europe 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freeing The First Amendment: Critical Perspectives On Freedom Of Expression 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are All Apocalyptic Now 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arguing for Our Lives: A User's Guide to Constructive Dialog 2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically encouraged not to think independently or critically, and instead to accept the mythology of the United States as a benevolent, misunderstood giant as it lumbers around the world trying to do good.”
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“Jokes are funny only in context. There is no such thing as abstract clever word play. Words have meaning in the world in which we live, not in the abstract. Take away the politics, and there is no joke. The joke wouldn't make any sense. if the joke is funny, it's funny precisely because it's racist and sexist.”
― Robert Jensen, The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege

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“We're all in the race game, so to speak, either consciously or unconsciously. We can overtly support white-supremacist racial projects. We can reject white supremacy and support racial projects aimed at a democratic distibution of power and a just distribution of resources. Or we can claim to not be interested in race, in which case we almost certainly will end up tacitly supporting white supremacy by virtue of our unwillingness to confront it. In a society in which white supremacy has structured every aspect of our world, there can be no claim to neutrality.”
― Robert Jensen, The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege

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