Print culture in a diverse America
By: edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand.
Contributors: Danky, James Philip, 1947-; Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946-
Series: The history of communication
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Ethnic press -- United States.; American newspapers -- Foreign language press.; American periodicals -- Foreign language press.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Italian immigrant press and the construction of social reality, 1850-1920 / Rudolph J. Vecoli; title: Chicago's StreetWise at the crossroads: case study of a newspaper to empower the homeless in the 1990s / Norma Fay Green; title: Pan-Africanism in print: the Boston Chronicle and the struggle for Black liberation and advancement, 1930-50 / Violet Johnson; title: San Francisco's Chung Sai Yat Po and the transformation of Chinese consciousness, 1900-1920 / Yumei Sun; title: "The world we shall win for labor": early twentieth-century hobo self-publication / Lynne M. Adrian; title: "The morning cometh": African-American periodicals, education, and the Black middle class, 1900-1930 / Michael Fultz; title: Forgotten readers: African-American literary societies and the American scene / Elizabeth McHenry; title: Better than billiards: reading and the public library in Osage, Iowa, 1890-95 / Christine Pawley; title: Unknown and unsung: contested meanings of the Titanic disaster / Steven Biel; title: Building a Black audience in the 1930s: Langston Hughes, poetry readings, and the Golden Stair Press / Elizabeth Davey; title: Keeping the "secret of authorship": a critical look at the 1912 publication of James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an ex-colored man / Jacqueline Goldsby.