TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobs, Ronald N.
PY  - 2000
DA  - 2000//
TI  - Race, media, and the crisis of civil society: from Watts to Rodney King
T3  - Cambridge cultural social studies
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - African Americans in mass media
KW  - African American press
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Mass media and race relations
KW  - African Americans and mass media
KW  - Mass media and race relations ; United States
KW  - Mass media ; Social aspects ; United States
KW  - United States ; Race relations
KW  - Race relations
AB  - 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, showing how they increased black visibility within white civil society and helped to form separate black public spheres in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Comparing African-American and 'mainstream' media coverage of some of the most memorable racial crises of the last forty years such as the Watts riot, the beating of Rodney King, the Los Angeles uprisings and the O. J. Simpson trial, Jacobs shows why a strong African-American press is still needed today. Race, Media and the Crisis of Civil Society  challenges us to rethink our common understandings of communication, solidarity and democracy. Its engaging style and thorough scholarship will ensure its appeal to students, academics and the general reader interested in the mass media, race and politics
SN  - 9780511489211
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489211
DO  - 10.1017/CBO9780511489211
LA  - English
N1  - Ronald N. Jacobs
ID  - 883358581
ER  -