Print culture in a diverse America
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Print culture in a diverse America
（The history of communication）
University of Illinois Press, c1998
- : pbk
Available at 11 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- The Italian immigrant press and the construction of social reality, 1850-1920 / Rudolph J. Vecoli
- Chicago's streetwise at the crossroads: a 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 / J acqueline Goldsby
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780252023989
Description
In the modern era there arose a prolific and vibrant print culture -- books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups. This long-overdue collection offers a unique foray into the multicultural world of reading and readers in the United States. Interdisciplinary essays examine the many ways print culture functions within different groups; they link gender, class, and ethnicity to the uses and goals of a wide variety of publications; and they explore the role print materials play in constructing certain historical events, such as the Titanic disaster.
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: pbk ISBN 9780252066993
Description
In the modern era, there arose a prolific and vibrant print culture-books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups. This long-overdue collection offers a unique foray into the multicultural world of reading and readers in the United States.
The contributors to this award-winning collection pen interdisciplinary essays that examine the many ways print culture functions within different groups. The essays link gender, class, and ethnicity to the uses and goals of a wide variety of publications and also explore the role print materials play in constructing historical events like the Titanic disaster.
Contributors: Lynne M. Adrian, Steven Biel, James P. Danky, Elizabeth Davey, Michael Fultz, Jacqueline Goldsby, Norma Fay Green, Violet Johnson, Elizabeth McHenry, Christine Pawley, Yumei Sun, and Rudolph J. Vecoli
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