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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Forming the Public
A Critical History of Journalism in the United States
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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.
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Publisher
University of Illinois PressYear
2024Print ISBN
9780252088599
9780252046506
eBook ISBN
9780252047817
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Creating an American Public Interest
- 2 Writing against Slavery: The Abolitionist Press
- 3 The Long Struggle for Women’s Suffrage
- 4 The Haymarket Riot and the Rights of Labor
- 5 Reconstruction, Lynching, and Ida B. Wells’s Crusade for Justice
- 6 Dreams and Nightmares of Empire
- 7 La Raza and the Rangers: Competing Narratives of Citizenship and Policing on the Borderlands
- 8 What Is Democracy? Lippmann, Bernays, and Public Opinion
- 9 What Is “Americanism”? The Second Red Scare
- 10 Civil Rights and the Spectacle of Southern Racism
- 11 The Black Panthers and the Young Lords: Anti-imperialist and Anti-capitalist Journalism
- 12 The American Indian Movement and Indigenous Peoples’ Media Strategies
- Conclusion: The Ongoing Struggle to Define the Public
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover
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