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Pleasure in the news : African American readership and sexuality in the Black press / Kim Gallon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gallon, Kim T., author.
- Series:
- New Black studies series.
- Illinois scholarship online.
- The new Black studies series
- Illinois scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American newspapers--History--20th century.
- African American newspapers.
- Sex--Press coverage--United States--History--20th century.
- Sex.
- Sex role--Press coverage--United States--History--20th century.
- Sex role.
- Press and politics--United States--History--20th century.
- Press and politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource)
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 'Pleasure in the News' is an examination of the coverage of sexuality in the Black Press between 1925 and 1940, otherwise known as the interwar period in the United States. In this text, Kim Gallon argues that the Black Press made sexuality a major topic of news to appease African American readers' imagined desires for sexual coverage. In so doing, Gallon argues that Black Press coverage produced a number of black sexual public spheres that offered early-twentieth-century African Americans opportunities to debate and discuss particular sexual topics. In their simplest form, black sexual public spheres were discursive arenas in which readers debated and discussed sexual matters.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 27, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9780252052101
- 0252052102
- OCLC:
- 1141019282
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