
Forming the Public
A Critical History of Journalism in the United States
University of Illinois Press
Published on 31. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-252-08859-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. 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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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
25 black & white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
426 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-252-08859-9 (9780252088599)
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Persons
Frank Durham is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Thomas Oates is an associate professor in the department of American Studies and an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and at the University of Iowa. His books include Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Creating an American Public Interest
Writing against Slavery: The Abolitionist Press
The Long Struggle for Women's Suffrage
The Haymarket Riot and the Rights of Labor
Reconstruction, Lynching, and Ida B. Wells's Crusade for Justice
Dreams and Nightmares of Empire
La Raza and the Rangers: Competing Narratives of Citizenship and Policing on the Borderlands
What Is Democracy? Lippmann, Bernays, and Public Opinion
What Is "Americanism"? The Second Red Scare
Civil Rights and the Spectacle of Southern Racism
The Black Panthers and the Young Lords: Anti-imperialist and Anti-capitalist Journalism
The American Indian Movement and Indigenous Peoples' Media Strategies
Conclusion: The Ongoing Struggle to Define the Public
Notes
Index
Introduction
Creating an American Public Interest
Writing against Slavery: The Abolitionist Press
The Long Struggle for Women's Suffrage
The Haymarket Riot and the Rights of Labor
Reconstruction, Lynching, and Ida B. Wells's Crusade for Justice
Dreams and Nightmares of Empire
La Raza and the Rangers: Competing Narratives of Citizenship and Policing on the Borderlands
What Is Democracy? Lippmann, Bernays, and Public Opinion
What Is "Americanism"? The Second Red Scare
Civil Rights and the Spectacle of Southern Racism
The Black Panthers and the Young Lords: Anti-imperialist and Anti-capitalist Journalism
The American Indian Movement and Indigenous Peoples' Media Strategies
Conclusion: The Ongoing Struggle to Define the Public
Notes
Index