Print Culture in a Diverse AmericaJames Philip Danky, Wayne A. Wiegand In the modern era, there arose a prolific and vibrant print culture--books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups. This long-overdue collection offers a unique foray into the multicultural world of reading and readers in the United States. The contributors to this award-winning collection pen interdisciplinary essays that examine the many ways print culture functions within different groups. The essays link gender, class, and ethnicity to the uses and goals of a wide variety of publications and also explore the role print materials play in constructing historical events like the Titanic disaster. Contributors: Lynne M. Adrian, Steven Biel, James P. Danky, Elizabeth Davey, Michael Fultz, Jacqueline Goldsby, Norma Fay Green, Violet Johnson, Elizabeth McHenry, Christine Pawley, Yumei Sun, and Rudolph J. Vecoli |
Contents
The Italian Immigrant Press and the Construction of Social Reality 18501920 | 17 |
Chicagos Streetwise at the Crossroads A Case Study of a Newspaper to Empower the Homeless in the 1990s | 34 |
PanAfricanism in Print The Boston Chronicle and the Struggle for Black Liberation and Advancement 193050 | 56 |
San Franciscos Chung Sai YatPo and the Transformation of Chinese Consciousness 19001920 | 85 |
The World We Shall Win for Labor Early TwentiethCentury Hobo SelfPublication | 101 |
The Morning Cometh AfricanAmerican Periodicals Education and the Black Middle Class 19001930 | 129 |
Forgotten Readers AfricanAmerican Literary Societies and the American Scene | 149 |
Better than Billiards Reading and the Public Library in Osage Iowa 189095 | 173 |
Unknown and Unsung Contested Meanings of the Titanic Disaster | 203 |
Building a Black Audience in the 1930 Langston Hughes Poetry Readings and the Golden Stair Press | 223 |
Keeping the Secret of Authorship A Critical Look at the 1912 Publication of James Weldon Johnsons Autobiography of an ExColored Man | 244 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 273 |
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