The Black Press
edited by Todd Vogel

Description:

In a segregated society in which minority writers and artists could find few ways to reach an audience, journalism gave them access to diverse U.S. communities. The original essays in this volume show how marginalized voices attempted to be heard in their day.

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. The essays 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.

Todd 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.

Praise for The Black Press

"Ambitious and wide-ranging, 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

"The 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

The Black Press
edited by Todd Vogel

ISBN: 9780813530055
ISBN-10: 0813530059
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Date: 2001
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Book Type: New