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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Black Press"”.
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Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press
… at both Drum's role in the birth of the popular black press and the magazine's complex conceptions of urban life. It argues that Drum's non-fiction promoted a cosmopolitan identity for its urban readers, in direct opposition to the efforts by the apartheid government to "retribralise" black urban …
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Interpreting Racial Politics: Black and Mainstream Press Web Site Tea Party Coverage
… seeks to understand the cultural meanings of the black and mainstream press’ online interpretations of the tea party. Little research exists on the modern black press; what does exist shows that unless the story is about race, the black press mirrors the mainstream press. To my knowledge, no …
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Black honor: belonging and the construction of identity among the writers of O Clarim d'Alvorada
… still is) skin color. In the city of São Paulo black skin color was such a negative signifier that it prevented many educated black people from advancing socially. As a result, many blacks in São Paulo formed organizations that sought to articulate and position their right to “eliteness.” …
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Always Out of Sight, Just Below the Surface: Steve Davis and the Problems of Researching Jazz Musicians
… figure; the coverage of jazz in the Philadelphia black press throughout the late 1940s and 1950s; the coverage of lesser known figures in jazz magazines such as Down Beat and Coda throughout the 1960s; and the challenges of researching the jazz scene in a smaller city such as Rochester, New York …
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Treading Our Path Through the Blood of the Slaughtered: Race and Martyrdom in America, 1830-1968
… strain of American cultural martyrdom I term “Black American martyrdom.” I trace the genealogy of Black American martyrdom from the 1830s, when martyrdom rhetoric flourished among the zealous Northeastern immediate abolitionists, to the 1960s, when Martin Luther King, Jr. influentially cast …
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Broken News: Market Segmentation and Selective Exposure in Online News
… websites—the Huffington Post, Huffington Post Black Voices and News One—to arrive at conclusions about the similarities and differences in how news content is reported to a general audience and to an African-American audience. This exploratory study used both Web sphere analysis and qualitative …
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“Should I Sacrifice to Live Half-American?”: An Examination of the Double V Campaign
… V Campaign and focuses on the movement as an expression of African American aspirations for the recognition of their full American citizenship rights. The Double V Campaign helped many black Americans reconcile the paradoxes of being asked to fight for a country that denied African Americans …
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Sporting correspondents: African American baseball players in the Americas, 1910 – 1950
… athletes worked alongside sportswriters in the black press, making their lived experiences legible for readers of black newspapers. “Sporting Correspondents: African American Baseball Players in the Americas, 1910-1950” argues that black sportswriters and sojourning ballplayers worked as …
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An African American discourse community in Black & White: the New Orleans Tribune
In An African American Discourse Community in Black & White: The New Orleans Tribune, an archival study of the first black-owned daily newspaper in the United States, I argue that the newspaper rhetorically constructed a literate African American discourse community worthy of citizenship and equal …
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A Study of How Four Black Newspapers Covered the U.S. Masters Tournament 1994 through 2001.
… thesis is to discuss the manner in which four black newspapers covered the U.S. Masters Tournament, hosted annually at the Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia, from 1994 through 2001. The four black newspapers include two from the North, the <em>New Pittsburgh Courier</em> and the <em>Chicago …