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OverviewIn a segregated society in which minority writers and artists could find few ways to reach an audience, journalism was a means of dispersing information to many U.S. communities. The original essays in this volume show how marginalized voices attempted to be heard in the circles of debate that existed in their day. The Black Press progresses chronologically from abolitionist newspapers to the impact and implications of the Internet to reveal how the black press's content and its very form changed with evolving historical and cultural conditions in America. The essays in this work address the production, distribution, regulation, and reception of black journalism, illustrating a more textured public discourse, one that exchanges ideas not just within the black community, but also within the nation at large. The contributors demonstrate that African American journalists redefined class, restaged race and nationhood, and reset the terms of public conversation, providing a fuller understanding of the varied cultural battles fought throughout our country's history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Todd Vogel , Jane Marcus , Robert S. Levine , Anna EverettPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780813530055ISBN 10: 0813530059 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 October 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction / Todd Vogel Part I The Antebellum Years Circulating the Nation: David Walker, the Missouri Compromise, and the Rise of the Black Press / Robert S. Levine The New Face of Black Labor / Todd Vogel Frederick Douglass's ``Colored Newspaper'': Identity Politics in Black and White / Robert Fanuzzi ``We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident'': The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass's Journalism / Shelley Fisher Fishkin / Carla L. Peterson Part II After the Civil War Black Separatism in the Periodical Writings of Mrs. A. E. (Amelia) Johnson / Wendy Wagner Poetics of Memory and Marginality: Images of the Native American in African-American Newspapers, 1870-1900 and 1970-1990 / Hannah Gourgey Part III The Harlem Renaissance and the 1930s Our(?) Country: Mapping ``These `Colored' United States'' in The Messenger / Adam Mckible ``Bombed in Spain'': Langston Hughes, the Black Press, and the Spanish Civil War / Michael Thurston Part IV World War II and Postwar America ``Kin in Some Way'': The Chicago Defender Reads the Japanese Internment, 1942-1945 / C. K. Doreski On Sale at Your Favorite Newsstand: Negro Digest /Black World and the 1960s / James C. Hall ``Photographs Taken in Everyday Life'': Ebony's Photojournalistic Discourse / Maren Stange Black Panther Newspaper: A Militant Voice, a Salient Vision / Rodger Streitmatter The Black Press in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Two Exemplars / Anna Everett Contributors IndexReviewsThe work of historical recuperation provided by The Black Press is especially valuable not only for what it tells us about the evolution of black culture in the United States, but also for what it reveals about the undercurrents of American culture at key moments in history. - Eric J. Sundquist, Northwestern University Ambitious and wideranging, a number of the essays in The Black Press reflect the best and most innovative interpretive strategies in African American and Black diaspora studies. - Kevin Gaines, University of Michigan Author InformationTodd Vogel is the director of American Studies and a visiting assistant professor of English and American Studies at Trinity College, Connecticut. His journalistic work has appeared in Business Week, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the Dallas Morning News. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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