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Looking at the stars : black celebrity journalism in Jim Crow America / Carrie Teresa.
Van Pelt Library PN4882.5 .T47 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Teresa, Carrie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American press--History.
- African American press.
- African American celebrities--Press coverage.
- African American celebrities.
- African American newspapers--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- African American newspapers.
- History.
- Press coverage.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 249 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Untangling discourses of representation in black press celebrity reporting
- Early crossover black celebrities and the onus of collective representation
- Black celebrities uplift the race
- The mythologizing of black celebrities
- The marginalization of black female celebrities as race representatives
- National heroes, foreign villains, and un-hyphenated Americans
- Journalistic commemoration and the construction of a "felt" past
- The politics of black press celebrity journalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780803299924
- 0803299923
- OCLC:
- 1056202796
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