African American Women in the News: Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism

African American Women in the News: Gender, Race, and Class in JournalismAfrican American Women in the News offers the first in depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates the complex and often contradictory images of African American women in news media through detailed studies of national and local news, the mainstream and

social aspiration

leader of an all-girl clique called the Pussy Pound

unwanted—and in lethal tune with each other

to have betrayed their race

Cobb shows

while her selection of quotes celebrates resistance and honors the work of anti-racist leaders past and present

and their hearts

raising successful pilots to celebrity or heroic status

covering a span of about sixty years and touching upon the most important developments in that country’s recent history from about 1918 to the 1970s

" VERDICT A stunning work

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