Print culture in a diverse America / edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand.
Uniform Title: | History of communication.
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Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[1998], ©1998.
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Series: | History of communication.
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Physical Description: | x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- The Italian immigrant press and the construction of social reality, 1850-1920 / Rudolph J. Vecoli
- Chicago's StreetWise at the crossroads: case study of a newspaper to empower the homeless in the 1990s / Norma Fay Green
- Pan-Africanism in print: the Boston Chronicle and the struggle for Black liberation and advancement, 1930-50 / Violet Johnson
- San Francisco's Chung Sai Yat Po and the transformation of Chinese consciousness, 1900-1920 / Yumei Sun
- "The world we shall win for labor": early twentieth-century hobo self-publication / Lynne M. Adrian
- "The morning cometh": African-American periodicals, education, and the Black middle class, 1900-1930 / Michael Fultz
- Forgotten readers: African-American literary societies and the American scene / Elizabeth McHenry
- Better than billiards: reading and the public library in Osage, Iowa, 1890-95 / Christine Pawley
- Unknown and unsung: contested meanings of the Titanic disaster / Steven Biel
- Building a Black audience in the 1930s: Langston Hughes, poetry readings, and the Golden Stair Press / Elizabeth Davey
- Keeping the "secret of authorship": a critical look at the 1912 publication of James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an ex-colored man / Jacqueline Goldsby.