Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.

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From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating millions of African Americans about their past. Guided by the pen of Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and in-house historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II. Its content helped push representations of the African American past from the margins to the center of the nation’s cultural and political imagination.

E. James West''s fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony’s political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. He also uncovers a paradox. Though Ebony provided Bennett with space to promote a militant reading of black history and protest, the magazine’s status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both past and present.

Mixing biography, cultural history, and popular memory, West restores Ebony and Bennett to their rightful place in African American intellectual, commercial, and political history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-02-24
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252051999
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

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Biografier inom Biografier
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Media och underhållning inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

E. James West is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American History at Northumbria University.

Recensioner i media

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Innehållsförteckning

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. An Abundance of Outright Untruths2. Tell Us of Our Past3. White Problems and the Roots of Black Power4. Learning Is an All-Black Thing5. We Can Seize the Opportunity6. A Hero to Be RememberedConclusionNotesBibliographyIndexBack cover