A transplanted Chicago [electronic resource] : race, place and the press in Iowa City / Robert E. Gutsche, Jr.

"This book looks at the movement of urban American Blacks into the Midwest through the experience of Iowa City, a town desperately trying to redefine itself. Pressing questions have plagued the community for decades: Why are people from Chicago coming here? Who gets to define community identity? Who...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gutsche, Robert E., 1980-
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Subjects:	African Americans > Iowa > Iowa City > History. African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > History. Migration, Internal > United States > History. African Americans > Press coverage > Iowa > Iowa City > History. Journalism > Social aspects > Iowa > Iowa City > History. African American neighborhoods > Iowa > Iowa City > History. Community life > Iowa > Iowa City > History. Chicago (Ill.) > Emigration and immigration. Iowa City (Iowa) > Emigration and immigration. Iowa City (Iowa) > Race relations.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2014 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2014 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	A Transplanted Chicago: Race, Place and the Press in Iowa City
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Introduction: Welcome to the rural ghetto : "Southeast Side" as "Little Chicago"
How news explains everyday life
Place and its purpose
Building the ghetto : reading news as cultural mortar
News of "The Inner City" : racializing the Southeast Side
What's the Southeast Side? : using mental mapping to construct place
Whose Southeast Side? : mapping place
The subtle power of the press : place and its ideological function
School news : press constructions of schools-as-place
Conclusion: On the role of news, place and being human
Epilogue: Beyond the Southeast Side : news place-making elsewhere.