A second sight : how the wonder and vision of Black mediamakers push America toward freedom / Sarah J. Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Sarah J., 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Race relations.

United States.

African Americans and mass media.

African American mass media--Influence.

African American mass media.

Popular culture--United States--History.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

308 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

2nd sight

Place of Publication:

New York : Mariner Books, [2026]

Summary:

"Since the nation's founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience--a "second sight"--that reveals the truth about the nation to itself. As renowned media scholar Sarah J. Jackson charts in this bold and daring masterwork, at the center of this effort has been an extraordinary cast of Black journalists, photographers, filmmakers, radio hosts, podcasters and other mediamakers who have drawn on the visionary tradition of second sight to advance democracy and broaden our most fundamental American values. When Black mediamakers raise their voices and speak uncomfortable truths about America, they shape memories of the nation and push us toward a future more closely aligned with our espoused values. For two centuries, this "second sight" has been an overlooked engine of American democracy. Drawing from W.E.B. Du Bois's philosophical work, along with deep historical analysis and dozens of interviews with today's most active Black mediamakers, A Second Sight shows these visionaries positioned at the margins of their industries and navigating fraught relationships to power. They've warned of the greatest dangers to democracy--from slavery to Nazism, and mass incarceration to misinformation. Their work is central to our culture and politics. Yet it is devalued, met with violent censure, or achieved only via ingenious work-arounds. This tension has sharpened their commitments to truth. Now one of our nation's foremost scholars of American media, Sarah J. Jackson, presents an appraisal that situates Black mediamakers at the vanguard of telling the American story. Brilliant, urgent and illuminating, A Second Sight is an authentic and candid grappling with a discordant thread in the American fabric and, in tracing a bolder vision for the nation, presents a way forward."-- Amazon.com.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-298) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780358726500

0358726506

OCLC:

1535850577

Publisher Number:

90104456276