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Journalism and Jim Crow
White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build,
nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the
decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black
press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States
to live up to its democratic ideals. Journalism and Jim
Crow centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping
the rise of the Jim Crow South. The contributors explore the
leading role of the white press in constructing an anti-democratic
society by promoting and supporting not only lynching and convict
labor but also coordinated campaigns of violence and fraud that
disenfranchised Black voters. They also examine the Black press's
parallel fight for a multiracial democracy of equality, justice,
and opportunity for all-a losing battle with tragic consequences
for the American experiment.
Original and revelatory, Journalism and Jim Crow opens
up new ways of thinking about the complicated relationship between
journalism and power in American democracy.
Contributors: Sid Bedingfield, Bryan Bowman, W. Fitzhugh
Brundage, Kathy Roberts Forde, Robert Greene II, Kristin L.
Gustafson, D'Weston Haywood, Blair LM Kelley, and Razvan Sibii
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Misinformation nation : foreign news and the politics of truth in revolutionary America
Fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the causes of the American Revolution and the pivotal role foreign news and misinformation played in driving colonists to revolt.Runner-up of the Journal of The American Revolution Book of the Year Award by the Journal of The American RevolutionFake news is not new. Just like millions of Americans today, the revolutionaries of the eighteenth century worried that they were entering a post-truth era. Their fears, however, were not fixated on social media or clickbait, but rather on peoples' increasing reliance on reading news gathered from foreign newspapers. In Misinformation Nation, Jordan E. Taylor reveals how foreign news defined the boundaries of American politics and ultimately drove colonists to revolt against Britain and create a new nation.News was the lifeblood of early American politics, but newspaper printers had few reliable sources to report on events from abroad. Accounts of battles and beheadings, as well as declarations and constitutions, often arrived alongside contradictory intelligence. Though frequently false, the information that Americans encountered in newspapers, letters, and conversations framed their sense of reality, leading them to respond with protests, boycotts, violence, and the creation of new political institutions. Fearing that their enemies were spreading fake news, American colonists fought for control of the news media. As their basic perceptions of reality diverged, Loyalists separated from Patriots and, in the new nation created by the revolution, Republicans inhabited a political reality quite distinct from that of their Federalist rivals. The American Revolution was not only a political contest for liberty, equality, and independence (for white men, at least); it was also a contest to define certain accounts of reality to be truthful while defining others as false and dangerous. Misinformation Nation argues that we must also conceive of the American Revolution as a series of misperceptions, misunderstandings, and uninformed overreactions. In addition to making a striking and original argument about the founding of the United States, Misinformation Nation will be a valuable prehistory to our current political moment.
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Rewriting the newspaper : the storytelling movement in American print journalism
\"Thomas Schmidt analyzes the expansion of narrative journalism and the corresponding institutional changes in the American newspaper industry in the last quarter of the twentieth century. In doing so, he offers the first institutionally situated history of narrative journalism's evolution from the New Journalism of the 1960s to long-form literary journalism in the 1990s. Based on the analysis of primary sources, industry publications, and oral history interviews, this study traces how narrative techniques developed and spread through newsrooms, propelled by institutional initiatives and a growing network of practitioners, proponents, and writing coaches who mainstreamed the use of storytelling. By showing how the narrative form of journalism was embraced, resisted, and negotiated by various actors in American journalism, Schmidt sheds light on the interaction between journalism and social forces in the late twentieth century\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hedged
The untold history of an American catastrophe
The ultrawealthy largely own and guide the newspaper system in
the United States. Through entities like hedge funds and private
equity firms, this investor class continues to dismantle the one
institution meant to give voice to average citizens in a
democracy.
Margot Susca reveals the little-known history of how private
investment took over the newspaper industry. Drawing on a political
economy of media, Susca's analysis uses in-depth interviews and
documentary evidence to examine issues surrounding ownership and
power. Susca also traces the scorched-earth policies of layoffs,
debt, cash-outs, and wholesale newspaper closings left behind by
private investors and the effects of the devastation on the future
of news and information. Throughout, Susca reveals an industry
rocked less by external forces like lost ad revenue and more by
ownership and management obsessed with profit and beholden to
private fund interests that feel no responsibility toward
journalism or the public it is meant to serve.
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The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality
This book helps inject the Miami Times into the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida by highlighting its role in Rice v Arnold, a 1949 lawsuit filed by black recreational golfers in Miami to oppose segregation on the city's public golf course.Founded in 1923 by Bahamian-born H.E.S.
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Everything Was Better in America
As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that holding to these values would get them through hard times. Through analysis of the era's most popular newspaper stories, magazines, and books, Welky examines how voices both outside and within the media debated the purposes of literature and the meaning of cultural literacy in a mass democracy. He presents lively discussions of such topics as the newspaper treatment of the Lindbergh kidnapping, issues of race in coverage of the 1936 Olympic games, domestic dynamics and gender politics in cartoons and magazines, Superman's evolution from a radical outsider to a spokesman for the people, and the popular consumption of such novels as the Ellery Queen mysteries, Gone with the Wind, and The Good Earth. Through these close readings, Welky uncovers the subtle relationship between the messages that mainstream media strategically crafted and those that their target audience wished to hear.
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