Forming the Public
eBook - ePub

Forming the Public

A Critical History of Journalism in the United States

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Forming the Public

A Critical History of Journalism in the United States

About this book

Throughout United States history, journalists and media workers have mobilized to promote and oppose various movements in public life. But a single meaning of the public remains elusive. Frank D. Durham and Thomas P. Oates provide an eye-opening analysis of the role played by journalism in the ongoing struggle to shape and transform ideas about the public. Using historical episodes and news reports, Durham and Oates offer examples of the influential words and images deployed by not only journalists but by media workers and activists. Their analysis moves from the patriot-inflamed emotions of the revolutionary period to the conventional and creative ways the American Indian Movement confronted the mainstream with their grievances.

Weaving eyewitness history through US history, Forming the Public reveals what understanding the journalism landscape can teach us about the nature of journalism's own interests in race, gender, and class while tracing the factors that shaped the contours of dominant American culture.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 Creating an American Public Interest
  8. 2 Writing against Slavery: The Abolitionist Press
  9. 3 The Long Struggle for Women’s Suffrage
  10. 4 The Haymarket Riot and the Rights of Labor
  11. 5 Reconstruction, Lynching, and Ida B. Wells’s Crusade for Justice
  12. 6 Dreams and Nightmares of Empire
  13. 7 La Raza and the Rangers: Competing Narratives of Citizenship and Policing on the Borderlands
  14. 8 What Is Democracy? Lippmann, Bernays, and Public Opinion
  15. 9 What Is “Americanism”? The Second Red Scare
  16. 10 Civil Rights and the Spectacle of Southern Racism
  17. 11 The Black Panthers and the Young Lords: Anti-imperialist and Anti-capitalist Journalism
  18. 12 The American Indian Movement and Indigenous Peoples’ Media Strategies
  19. Conclusion: The Ongoing Struggle to Define the Public
  20. Notes
  21. Index
  22. Back Cover