The Black press
Subtitle: new literary and historical essays
By: edited by Todd Vogel.
Contributors: Vogel, Todd, 1959-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: African American press -- History.
Description: The Black Press progresses chronologically from abolitionist newspapers to today's Internet and reveals how the black press's content and its very form changed with evolving historical conditions in America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I The Antebellum Years; title: Chapter 1 Circulating the Nation: David Walker, the Missouri; title: Compromise, and the Rise of the Black Press 17; title: ROBERT S. LEVINE; title: Chapter 2 The New Face of Black Labor 37; title: TODD VOGEL; title: Chapter 3 Frederick Douglass's "Colored Newspaper": Identity; title: Politics in Black and White 55; title: ROBERT FANUZZI; title: Chapter 4 "We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident":; title: The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass's Journalism 71; title: SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN AND CARLA L. PETERSON; title: Part II After the Civil War; title: Chapter 5 Black Separatism in the Periodical Writings of; title: Mrs. A. E. (Amelia) Johnson 93; title: WENDY WAGNER; title: Chapter 6 Poetics of Memory and Marginality: Images of; title: the Native American in African-American; title: Newspapers, 1870-1900 and 1970-1990; title: HANNAH GOURGEY; title: Part III The Harlem Renaissance and the 1930s; title: Chapter 7 Our(?) Country: Mapping "These 'Colored'; title: United States" in The Messenger; title: ADAM MCKIBLE; title: Chapter 8 "Bombed in Spain": Langston Hughes, the Black; title: Press, and the Spanish Civil War; title: MICHAEL THURSTON; title: Part IV World War II and Postwar America; title: Chapter 9 "Kin in Some Way": The Chicago Defender Reads; title: the Japanese Internment, 1942-1945; title: C. K. DORESKI; title: Chapter 10 On Sale at Your Favorite Newsstand:; title: Negro Digest /Black World and the 1960s; title: JAMES C. HALL; title: Chapter 11 "Photographs Taken in Everyday Life": Ebony's; title: Photojouralistic Discourse; title: MAREN STANGE; title: Chapter 12 Black Panther Newspaper: A Militant Voice,; title: a Salient Vision; title: RODGER STREITMATTER; title: Chapter 13 The Black Press in the Age of Digital Reproduction:; title: Two Exemplars; title: ANNA EVERETT; title: Contributors 259; title: Index 263.