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Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to Rodney King
By Ronald N. Jacobs
199 pages
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Synopsis
Since the early nineteenth century, African-Americans have turned to Black newspapers to monitor the mainstream media and to develop alternative interpretations of public events. Ronald Jacobs tells the stories of these newspapers--in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles--for the first time, comparing African-American and "mainstream" media coverage of racial crises such as the Watts riot, the beating of Rodney King, the Los Angeles uprisings and the O. J. Simpson trial. In an engaging yet scholarly ...
Since the early nineteenth century, African-Americans have turned to Black newspapers to monitor the mainstream media and to develop alternative interpretations of public events. Ronald Jacobs tells the stories of these newspapers--in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles--for the first time, comparing African-American and "mainstream" media coverage of racial crises such as the Watts riot, the beating of Rodney King, the Los Angeles uprisings and the O. J. Simpson trial. In an engaging yet scholarly style, Jacobs shows us why a strong African-American press is still needed today.
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Table of contents
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- Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society *
- Cambridge Cultural Social Studies *
- Title Page *
- Contents *
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
- 1 - Race, Media, and Multiple Publics 19
- 2 - Historicizing the Public Spheres: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago 31
- 3 - The Watts Uprisings of 1965 54
- 4 - The Rodney King Beating 81
- 5 - Rodney King 1992 113
- Conclusion 140
- Notes 152
- Bibliography 175
- Index 186