Print Culture in a Diverse America

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
1998
Author
Editor: James P. Danky
Editor: Wayne A. Wiegand
Language
English
Number of Pages
291 pp.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
City
Urbana, IL
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Region
United States
Library Type
Public Libraries
Demographics
Homeless People
African-Americans
Asian Americans
Immigrants
Chronological Period
1850-1899
1900-1949
1950-1999
ISBN
9780252023989
Annotation
  • Contents:
  • The Italian immigrant press and the construction of social reality, 1850-1920 / Rudolph J. Vecoli
  • Chicago's StreetWise at the crossroads: case study of a newspaper to empower the homeless in the 1990s / Norma Fay Green
  • Pan-Africanism in print: the Boston Chronicle and the struggle for Black liberation and advancement, 1930-50 / Violet Johnson
  • San Francisco's Chung Sai Yat Po and the transformation of Chinese consciousness, 1900-1920 / Yumei Sun
  • "The world we shall win for labor": early twentieth-century hobo self-publication / Lynne M. Adrian
  • "The morning cometh": African-American periodicals, education, and the Black middle class, 1900-1930 / Michael Fultz
  • Forgotten readers: African-American literary societies and the American scene / Elizabeth McHenry
  • Better than billiards: reading and the public library in Osage, Iowa, 1890-95 / Christine Pawley
  • Unknown and unsung: contested meanings of the Titanic disaster / Steven Biel
  • Building a Black audience in the 1930s: Langston Hughes, poetry readings, and the Golden Stair Press / Elizabeth Davey
  • Keeping the "secret of authorship": a critical look at the 1912 publication of James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an ex-colored man / Jacqueline Goldsby