Looking at the stars [electronic resource] : Black celebrity journalism in Jim Crow America / Carrie Teresa.
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Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2019]
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Variant Title: |
Looking at the Stars: Black Celebrity Journalism in Jim Crow America |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Untangling discourses of representation in black press celebrity reporting
- Early crossover black celebrities and the onus of collective representation
- Black celebrities uplift the race
- Shaping "dreams into reality": the mythologizing of black celebrities
- The marginalization of black female celebrities as race representatives
- National heroes, foreign villains, and un-hyphenated Americans
- Journalistic commemoration and the construction of a "felt" past
- The politics of black press celebrity journalism
- Afterword: the enduring role of the entertainer-activist in an uncertain media landscape.