The moving word : How the West African and Caribbean press shaped Black political thought, 1935-1960 / Leslie James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Leslie, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Africa, West.

Journalism.

Journalism--Caribbean Area.

Africa--History.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

How the West African and Caribbean press shaped Black political thought

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2025.

Summary:

In the 1930s and 1940s, Caribbean and West African newspapers nurtured anticolonial movements through experimental reporting. But as press professionalism became a proxy for a colony's capacity to self-govern in the 1950s, papers standardized and intellectual debates about racism and colonialism disappeared from their pages.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Part I West African and Caribbean Press Imaginaries

Part II The Press and Decolonization

Appendix Newspapers in Publication, ca. 1935-1960

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-30218-4

0-674-30219-2

9780674302198

OCLC:

1548531356