| Description |
x, 291 pages : illustrations 24 cm. |
| Series |
The history of communication |
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History of communication.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Italian immigrant press and the construction of social reality, 1850-1920 / Rudolph J. Vecoli -- Chicago's StreetWise at the crossroads: 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 / Jacqueline Goldsby. |
| Subject |
Ethnic press -- United States.
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American newspapers -- Foreign language press.
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American periodicals -- Foreign language press.
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| Added Author |
Danky, James Philip, 1947-
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Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946-
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| ISBN |
0252023986 (acid-free paper) |
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0252066995 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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