Carrie Teresa

Looking at the Stars (eBook, ePUB)

Black Celebrity Journalism in Jim Crow America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As early as 1900, when moving-picture and recording technologies began to bolster entertainment-based leisure markets, journalists catapulted entertainers to godlike status, heralding their achievements as paragons of American self-determination. Not surprisingly, mainstream newspapers failed to cover black entertainers, whose "inherent inferiority" precluded them from achieving such high cultural status. Yet those same celebrities came alive in the pages of black press publications written by and for members of urban black communities. In Looking at the Stars Carrie Teresa explores the meaning of celebrity as expressed by black journalists writing against the backdrop of Jim Crow-era segregation. Teresa argues that journalists and editors working for these black-centered publications, rather than simply mimicking the reporting conventions of mainstream journalism, instead framed celebrities as collective representations of the race who were then used to symbolize the cultural value of artistic expression influenced by the black diaspora and to promote political activism through entertainment. The social conscience that many contemporary entertainers of color exhibit today arguably derives from the way black press journalists once conceptualized the symbolic role of "celebrity" as a tool in the fight against segregation. Based on a discourse analysis of the entertainment content of the period's most widely read black press newspapers, Looking at the Stars takes into account both the institutional perspectives and the discursive strategies used in the selection and framing of black celebrities in the context of Jim Crowism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496215451
• Artikelnr.: 56963261

Autorenporträt

Carrie Teresa is an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Niagara University in New York. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the American Journalism Historians Association’s Margaret A. Blanchard Prize. 

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Untangling Discourses of Representation in Black Press Celebrity
Reporting
2. Early Crossover Black Celebrities and the Onus of Collective
Representation
3. Black Celebrities Uplift the Race
4. The Mythologizing of Black Celebrities
5. The Marginalization of Black Female Celebrities as Race Representatives
6. National Heroes, Foreign Villains, and Unhyphenated Americans
7. Journalistic Commemoration and the Construction of a “Felt” Past
8. The Politics of Black Press Celebrity Journalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index