Print culture in a diverse America /
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| Imprint: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1998. |
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| Description: | x, 291 p. : ill. 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The history of communication History of communication. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3302719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Theoretical Foundations for Analyzing Print Culture as Agency and Practice in a Diverse Modern America / Wayne A. Wiegand
- Pt. I. Deconstructing Forgotten Serials. 1. The Italian Immigrant Press and the Construction of Social Reality, 1850-1920 / Rudolph J. Vecoli. 2. Chicago's StreetWise at the Crossroads: A Case Study of a Newspaper to Empower the Homeless in the 1990s / Norma Fay Green. 3. Pan-Africanism in Print: The Boston Chronicle and the Struggle for Black Liberation and Advancement, 1930-50 / Violet Johnson. 4. San Francisco's Chung Sai Yat Po and the Transformation of Chinese Consciousness, 1900-1920 / Yumei Sun
- Pt. 2. Discovering the Reader: Texts of Class, Race, and Gender. 5. "The World We Shall Win for Labor": Early Twentieth-Century Hobo Self-Publication / Lynne M. Adrian. 6. "The Morning Cometh": African-American Periodicals, Education, and the Black Middle Class, 1900-1930 / Michael Fultz. 7. Forgotten Readers: African-American Literary Societies and the American Scene / Elizabeth McHenry. 8. Better than Billiards: Reading and the Public Library in Osage, Iowa, 1890-95 / Christine Pawley
- Pt. 3. Constructed Events: Reexamination through Different Lenses. 9. Unknown and Unsung: Contested Meanings of the Titanic Disaster / Steven Biel. 10. Building a Black Audience in the 1930s: Langston Hughes, Poetry Readings, and the Golden Stair Press / Elizabeth Davey. 11. 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.
