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Title:
Social justice, activism, and diversity in U.S. media history
Author:
Finneman, Teri Ann, editor.
ISBN:
9781032266558

9781032266572
Physical Description:
xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Source of cataloging data: WCP
Abstract:
"This book offers a diverse approach to journalism history told from a multimedia perspective, re-examining mainstream stories and highlighting contributions that are often overlooked. Interactive and accessible, Social Justice, Activism and Diversity in U.S. Media History is an indispensable resource for Generation Z, scholars in mass communication and American history, journalists and general readers"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction / Teri Finneman and Erika Pribanic-Smith -- Generations -- Life magazine’s “college girl” as a symbol of America in the 1930s / Lindsay Hargrave and Carolyn Kitch -- The war against Vietnam Era underground newspapers / John McMillian -- The first U.S. college newspaper sex column, 1996-1997 / Daniel Reimold -- Martin Luther King and the Montgomery story comic as a civil rights narrative / J. Michael Lyons -- Race/ethnicity -- How the Civil Rights Era brought diversity to television news / Kelli S. Boling -- The mediated Jorge Washington: Father of our countries / Melita M. Garza -- U.S. government suppression of Japanese-language press in World War II / Takeya Mizuno -- Red power in print and action / Melissa Greene-Blye -- A groundbreaking advertising appeal to Black Americans in the 1950s / Kimberley Mangun and Lisa M. Parcell -- Gender/sexuality -- A voice for social change in the Chicago Defender, 1939-1945 / Caryl Cooper -- Beyond sex: Independent women and the triumph of Cosmopolitan / Paula Hunt -- PR in the gay rights movement, 1950-1969 / Edward Alwood -- The press and the 1913 women’s march on Washington / Teri Finneman -- Disability/mental health -- “Making War in a Wheelchair”: News coverage of the disability rights movement / Joy Jenkins -- Seventy years of sports writing on athletes’ mental health / Nicholas Hirshon -- Religion -- Writing religion “right”: A history of exclusion in the AP stylebook / Fred Vultee -- The 19th century Irish American press: Faith, race, and revolution / Brian Shott -- Rosa Sonneschein and “The American Jewess” / Barbara Straus Reed -- Class -- Emma Goldman’s protest of the World War I draft / Erika Pribanic-Smith -- A newspaper for workers’ rights in a time of turmoil / Jon Bekken -- Oral history and the experiences of Mexican American grassroots publishers / Vinicio Sinta.