Seeking a voice : images of race and gender in the 19th century press / edited by David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, Roy Morris, Jr.

Other author Sachsman, David B.
Other author Rushing, S. Kittrell.
Other author Morris, Roy, Jr.
Format Book
Publication InfoWest Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxiii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects
Minorities--Press coverage. --United States. --History. --19th century.
Antislavery movements--Press coverage. --United States. --History. --19th century.
African American journalists--History. --19th century.
Racism--United States. --History. --19th century.
Women--Press coverage. --United States. --History. --19th century.
Sexism--United States. --History. --19th century.
American newspapers--History. --19th century.
American periodicals--History. --19th century.
Women journalists--United States. --History. --19th century.
Journalism--Social aspects. --United States. --History. --19th century.

Contents Race reporting. Mother, murderess, or martyr?: press coverage of the Margaret Garner story / Sarah Mitchell ; Racial and ethnic imagery in 19th century political cartoons / Richard Rice ; Heretical or conventional: Native Americans and African Americans in the journalism of Jane Grey Swisshelm / Mary Ann Weston ; Picturing American Indians: newspaper pictures and Native Americans in the 1860s and 1870s / William E. Huntzicker ; Last stand of the Partisan Press: Little Bighorn coverage in Kansas newspapers / James Mueller ; Assignment Liberia: "the boldest adventure in the history of Southern journalism" / Patricia G. McNeely ; Birth of a besieged nation: discourses of victimhood in D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation / Patricia Davis -- The fires of discontent. Fires of discontent: religious contradictions in the black press, 1830-1860 / Allen W. Palmer, Hyrum LaTurner ; Like father, like son: the antislavery legacy of William Hamilton / Bernell E. Tripp ; Broken shackles: how Frederick Douglass used the freedom of the press, speech, and religion in behalf of the African American slave, 1847-1863 / Kimberly G. Walker ; Ebony triangle: the black newspaper network in Kansas, 1878-1900 / Aleen J. Ratzlaff ; Illustrated African American journalism: political cartooning in the Indianapolis Freeman / Aleen J. Ratzlaff ; Frederick Jackson Turner revisited: the frontier character of the 19th century black press / Bernell E. Tripp ; Ida B. Wells, crusader against the lynch law / Aleen J. Ratzlaff --
Contents The cult of true womanhood. The First Lady and the media: newspaper coverage of Dolley Madison / Kate Roberts Edenborg ; A wonderful duty: a study of motherhood in Godey's magazine / Sarah Mitchell ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the cult of true womanhood / Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Kathryn M. Neal ; Reflections of the Civil War in Godey's and Peterson's magazines / Regina M. Faden ; The Darlings come out to see the volunteers: depictions of women in Harper's weekly during the Civil War / Kate Roberts Edenborg, Hazel Dicken-Garcia ; For feminine readers: images of women in the newspapers of the Gilded Age / Susan Inskeep Gray ; Contesting gender through journalism: revising woman's identity in The Lily / Amy Aronson -- Transcending the boundaries. Transcending the boundaries: Grace Greenwood's Washington / J.F. Saddler ; Julia Amanda Sargent Wood as editor of the New era / Dianne S. Blake ; "L" was a woman: Lois B. Adams, special correspondent to the Detroit advertiser and Tribune / Evelyn Leasher ; Eliza Frances Andrews (Elzey Hay), reporter / Charlotte A. Ford ; From yellow journalism to yellowed clippings: the notorious Florence Maybrick / Judith Knelman ; This wicked world: sex, crime, and sports in the National police gazette / Guy Reel ; The liberty to argue freely: 19th century obscenity prosecutions / Mary M. Cronin ; Ida Craddock, free speech martyr / Janice Wood.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN9781557535085 (pbk.)
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