The Black Press

New Literary and Historical Essays

Author: Todd Vogel
ISBN: 9780813530055

In a segregated society in which black scholars, writers, and artists could find few ways to reach an audience, journalism was a means of dispersing information to communities throughout the United States. The black press has offered incisive critiques of such issues as racism, identify, class, and economic injustice, but that contribution to public discourse has remained largely unrecognized until now. The original essays in this volume broaden our understanding of the "public sphere" and show how marginalized voices attempted to be heard in the circles of debate and dissent that existed in their day. The Black Press progresses chronologically from slavery to the impact and implications of the Internet to reveal how the press's content and its very form changed with evolving historical and cultural conditions in America. The first papers fought for rights for free blacks in the North. The early twentieth-century black press sought to define itself and its community amidst American mo

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publish Date: 2001

Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism, Literary Criticism / American / African American, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Media Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Black/African American (BLCK))