Ebony Magazine And Lerone Bennett Jr

Author : E. James West
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0252043111

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Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. by E. James West Pdf

From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating millions of African Americans about their past. Guided by the pen of Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and in-house historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II. Its content helped push representations of the African American past from the margins to the center of the nation’s cultural and political imagination. E. James West's fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony’s political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. He also uncovers a paradox. Though Ebony provided Bennett with space to promote a militant reading of black history and protest, the magazine’s status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both past and present. Mixing biography, cultural history, and popular memory, West restores Ebony and Bennett to their rightful place in African American intellectual, commercial, and political history.

Author : Lerone Bennett
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781774646694

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Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 by Lerone Bennett Pdf

The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of African Americans is addressed, from the Colonial period through the civil rights upheavals of the late 1950s to 1961, the time of publication. "Before the Mayflower" grew out of a series of articles Bennett published in Ebony magazine regarding "the trials and triumphs of a group of Americans whose roots in the American soil are deeper than the roots of the Puritans who arrived on the celebrated Mayflower a year after a 'Dutch man of war' deposited twenty Negroes at Jamestown." Bennett's history is infused with a desire to set the record straight about black contributions to the Americas and about the powerful Africans of antiquity. While not a fresh history, it provides a solid synthesis of current historical research and a lively writing style that makes it accessible and engaging reading. After discussing the contributions of Africans to the ancient world, "Before the Mayflower" tells the history of "the other Americans," how they came to America, and what happened to them when they got here. The book is comprehensive and detailed, providing little-known and often overlooked facts about the lives of black folks through slavery, Reconstruction, America's wars, the Great Depression, and the civil rights movement. This is a classic in examining the history of African Americans from their African past through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to contemporary problems and accomplishments.

Author : E. James West
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252051999

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Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. by E. James West Pdf

From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating millions of African Americans about their past. Guided by the pen of Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and in-house historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II. Its content helped push representations of the African American past from the margins to the center of the nation’s cultural and political imagination. E. James West's fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony’s political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. He also uncovers a paradox. Though Ebony provided Bennett with space to promote a militant reading of black history and protest, the magazine’s status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both past and present. Mixing biography, cultural history, and popular memory, West restores Ebony and Bennett to their rightful place in African American intellectual, commercial, and political history.

Author : Lerone Bennett
Publisher : Johnson Publishing Company (IL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0874850029

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Forced Into Glory by Lerone Bennett Pdf

Beginning with the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free African American slaves, this dissenting view of Lincoln's greatness surveys the president's policies, speeches, and private utterances and concludes that he had little real interest in abolition. Pointing to Lincoln's support for the fugitive slave laws, his friendship with slave-owning senator Henry Clay, and conversations in which he entertained the idea of deporting slaves in order to create an all-white nation, the book, concludes that the president was a racist at heart--and that the tragedies of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era were the legacy of his shallow moral vision.

Author : Lerone Bennett (Jr.)
Publisher : Johnson Publishing Company (IL)
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 0874850711

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The Shaping of Black America by Lerone Bennett (Jr.) Pdf

A developmental history of the African-American struggle for autonomy and power discusses black slaves and white indentured servants, the black founding fathers, the relationship between African-Americans and native Americans, and other issues.

Author : E. James West
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252053313

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A House for the Struggle by E. James West Pdf

Multiple Award-Winner! Winner of the 2023 Michael Nelson Prize of International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST) Recipient of the 2022 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award Winner of the 2023 American Journalism Historians Association Book of the Year Winner of the 2023 ULCC’s (Union League Club of Chicago) Outstanding Book on the History of Chicago Award Recipient of a 2023 Best of Illinois History Superior Achievement award from the Illinois State Historical Society Winner of the 2023 BAAS Book Prize (British Association for American Studies) Honorable Mention for the 2021-22 RSAP Book Prize (Research Society for American Periodicals) Buildings once symbolized Chicago's place as the business capital of Black America and a thriving hub for Black media. In this groundbreaking work, E. James West examines the city's Black press through its relationship with the built environment. As a house for the struggle, the buildings of publications like Ebony and the Chicago Defender embodied narratives of racial uplift and community resistance. As political hubs, gallery spaces, and public squares, they served as key sites in the ongoing Black quest for self-respect, independence, and civic identity. At the same time, factors ranging from discriminatory business practices to editorial and corporate ideology prescribed their location, use, and appearance, positioning Black press buildings as sites of both Black possibility and racial constraint. Engaging and innovative, A House for the Struggle reconsiders the Black press's place at the crossroads where aspiration collided with life in one of America's most segregated cities.

Author : Arthur L. Johnson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814333702

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Race and Remembrance by Arthur L. Johnson Pdf

Memoir of respected Detroit civic and civil rights leader Arthur L. Johnson.

Author : Miglena Sternadori,Tim Holmes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119151562

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The Handbook of Magazine Studies by Miglena Sternadori,Tim Holmes Pdf

A scholarly work examining the continuing evolution of the magazine—part of the popular Handbooks in Media and Communication series The Handbook of Magazine Studies is a wide-ranging study of the ways in which the political economy of magazines has dramatically shifted in recent years—and continues to do so at a rapid pace. Essays from emerging and established scholars explore the cultural function of magazine media in light of significant changes in content delivery, format, and audience. This volume integrates academic examination with pragmatic discussion to explore contemporary organizational practices, content, and cultural impact. Offering original research and fresh insights, thirty-six chapters provide a truly global perspective on the conceptual and historical foundations of magazines, their organizational cultures and narrative strategies, and their influences on society, identities, and lifestyle. The text addresses topics such as the role of advocacy in shaping and changing magazine identities, magazines and advertising in the digital age, gender and sexuality in magazines, and global magazine markets. Useful to scholars and educators alike, this book: Discusses media theory, academic research, and real-world organizational dynamics Presents essays from both emerging and established scholars in disciplines such as art, geography, and women’s studies Features in-depth case studies of magazines in international, national, and regional contexts Explores issues surrounding race, ethnicity, activism, and resistance Whether used as a reference, a supplementary text, or as a catalyst to spark new research, The Handbook of Magazine Studies is a valuable resource for students, educators, and scholars in fields of mass media, communication, and journalism.

Author : Lerone Bennett (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:779097345

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Before the Mayflower; a History of Black America by Lerone Bennett (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Ebony
Publisher : Johnson Publishing Company (IL)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015046447093

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The White Problem in America by Ebony Pdf

Author : Julia S. Charles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469659589

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That Middle World by Julia S. Charles Pdf

In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world—and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the interstices between the Black and white worlds. Focusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyze mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces. To illustrate how this middle world and its attendant performativity still resonates in the present day, Charles connects contemporary figures, television, and film—including Rachel Dolezal and her Black-passing controversy, the FX show Atlanta, and the musical Show Boat—to a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary texts. Charles's work offers a nuanced approach to African American passing literature and examines how mixed-race performers articulated their sense of selfhood and communal belonging.

Author : Edward Lewis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476703497

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The Man from Essence by Edward Lewis Pdf

The co-founder of Essence magazine recounts how his early life in a violent South Bronx neighborhood and a strong family work ethic inspired him to create a magazine for black women and overcome the career challenges that followed --

Author : Lerone Bennett (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : African Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033878070

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The Negro Mood, and Other Essays by Lerone Bennett (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Lerone Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : African Americans
ISBN : LCCN:72187680

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The Challenge of Blackness by Lerone Bennett Pdf

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 039308082X

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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner Pdf

“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.