Description: The Black Press progresses chronologically from slavery to the impact and implications of the Internet to reveal how the press's content and its very form changed with evolving historical and cultural conditions in America. The first papers fought for rights for free blacks in the North. The early twentieth-century black press sought to define itself and its community amidst American modernism. Writers in the 1960s took on the task of defining revolution in that decade's ferment. It was not been until the mid-twentieth century that African American cultural study began to achieve intellectual respectability.
Review Quotes: àprovides substantive, multi-dimensioned interpretations of texts and images that gave voice and influence to people marginalized by mainstream society. àThis collection of essays is a welcome addition to the historiography of the black press.-- "Journalism History "