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Journalism and Jim Crow : White supremacy and the Black struggle for a new America / edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield ; foreword by Alex Lichtenstein.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of communicationPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 344 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0252053044
  • 9780252053047
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Journalism and Jim CrowDDC classification:
  • 071.5 23
LOC classification:
  • PN4893 .J68 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Journalism and the world it built -- Part One. Architect of the New South / Kathy Roberts Forde -- Fight for a new America / D'Weston Haywood -- Part Two: Racial terror and disfranchisement -- The press and lynching / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- Mississippi plan / Robert Greene II -- Part three: Building the Solid South -- Populist insurgency, Alabama / Sid Bedingfield -- Tillman's rebellion, South Carolina -- Death of democracy, North Carolina / Kristin L. Gustafson -- Convict wars, Tennessee / Razvan Sibii -- Tourist empires, Florida / Kathy Roberts Forde and Bryan Bowman -- Part Four. Silencing a generation / Blair LM Kelley -- Epilogue: Journalism and the world to come.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Journalism and the world it built -- Part One. Architect of the New South / Kathy Roberts Forde -- Fight for a new America / D'Weston Haywood -- Part Two: Racial terror and disfranchisement -- The press and lynching / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- Mississippi plan / Robert Greene II -- Part three: Building the Solid South -- Populist insurgency, Alabama / Sid Bedingfield -- Tillman's rebellion, South Carolina -- Death of democracy, North Carolina / Kristin L. Gustafson -- Convict wars, Tennessee / Razvan Sibii -- Tourist empires, Florida / Kathy Roberts Forde and Bryan Bowman -- Part Four. Silencing a generation / Blair LM Kelley -- Epilogue: Journalism and the world to come.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 072

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