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BLACK STUDIES / COMMUNICATION
JOURNALISM AND JIM CROW
White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America
Edited by KATHY ROBERTS FORDE and SID BEDINGFIELD Foreword by Alex Lichtenstein A pioneering work on the role of the press in building—and opposing—Jim Crow “Together, the collected essays highlight the pivotal role of a set of actors and institutions, making substantial contributions to scholarship on the origins of Jim Crow as well as filling a major gap in journalism history and media studies.” —BRUCE J. SCHULMAN, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
NOVEMBER 360 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 19 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 5 LINE DRAWINGS, 1 MAP
White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic ideals. Journalism and Jim Crow centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the rise of the Jim Crow South. The contributors explore the leading role of the white press in constructing an anti-democratic society by promoting and supporting not only lynching and convict labor but also coordinated campaigns of violence and fraud that disenfranchised Black voters. They also examine the Black press’s parallel fight for a multiracial democracy of equality, justice, and opportunity for all—a losing battle with tragic consequences for the American experiment.
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Original and revelatory, Journalism and Jim Crow opens up new ways of thinking about the complicated relationship between journalism and power in American democracy.
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KATHY ROBERTS FORDE is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment. SID BEDINGFIELD is an associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935–1965.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC PRESIDENTS
Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital
CARA A. FINNEGAN Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks “This narrative weaves the evolution of a technology, a communications medium, and the highest office in the land into a vivid historical panorama. In current times, in an atmosphere in which visual politics can be all too affecting and effecting, Photographic Presidents places the visual presidency into a necessary frame.” —MICHAEL SHAW, publisher, Reading the Pictures Lincoln’s somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson’s swearing in. George W. Bush’s reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama’s selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium’s transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographs—as representations of leaders who symbolized the nation—sparked public debate on these values and their implications.
APRIL 2021 296 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 16 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 46 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04379-6 $110.00x £88.00
An original journey through political history, Photographic Presidents reveals the intertwined evolution of an American institution and a medium that continues to define it.
PAPER, 978-0-252-08578-9 $22.95 £17.99
CARA A. FINNEGAN is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression and Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs.
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COMMUNITY-CENTERED JOURNALISM
Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust
ANDREA WENZEL Fulfilling a vision of trust-centered local journalism “Andrea Wenzel is that rarest of beings, a thorough and skilled academic and an accomplished journalist. This book is a must read for anyone wanting to fully understand the crisis of trust in journalism, how it grows from deep, ingrained roots and flourishes through lack of attention and engagement. Wenzel’s examination of how journalism can better serve communities charts a clear empirical path for the field, but it also tells a compelling story about media, representation, and social cohesion at a critical time.” —EMILY BELL, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
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Contemporary journalism faces a crisis of trust that threatens the institution and may imperil democracy itself. Critics and experts see a renewed commitment to local journalism as one solution. But a lasting restoration of public trust requires a different kind of local journalism than is often imagined, one that engages with and shares power among all sectors of a community.
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Andrea Wenzel models new practices of community-centered journalism that build trust across boundaries of politics, race, and class, and prioritize solutions while engaging the full range of local stakeholders. Informed by case studies from rural, suburban, and urban settings, Wenzel’s blueprint reshapes journalism norms and creates vigorous storytelling networks between all parts of a community. Envisioning a portable, rather than scalable, process, Wenzel proposes a community-centered journalism that, once implemented, will strengthen lines of local communication, reinvigorate civic participation, and forge a trusting partnership between media and the people they cover.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05218-7 Publication supported by a grant from the Howard D. and Marjorie I. Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought. All rights: University of Illinois
ANDREA WENZEL is an assistant professor of journalism, media, and communications at Temple University.
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THE HUAWEI MODEL
The Rise of China’s Technology Giant
YUN WEN Understanding Huawei’s march onto the global scene “The well-organized approach, including the discussions of overseas investment and labor practices, presents unique findings, and adds to our knowledge not only of Huawei’s path, but also of Chinese private company dynamics in broader terms. The primary source material, especially the author interviews with Huawei and other Chinese corporate officials, adds a valuable dimension to our understanding of the company’s development.” —ERIC HARWIT, author of China’s Telecommunications Revolution In 2019, the United States’ trade war with China expanded to blacklist the Chinese tech titan Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The resulting attention showed the information and communications technology (ICT) firm entwined with China’s political-economic transformation. But the question remained: why does Huawei matter?
NOVEMBER 248 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 6 CHARTS
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Yun Wen uses the Huawei story as a microcosm to understand China’s evolving digital economy and the global rise of the nation’s corporate power. Rejecting the idea of the transnational corporation as a static institution, she explains Huawei’s formation and restructuring as a historical process replete with contradictions and complex consequences. She places Huawei within the international political economic framework to capture the dynamics of power structure and social relations underlying corporate China’s globalization. As she explores the contradictions of Huawei’s development, she also shows the ICT firm’s complicated interactions with other political-economic forces.
PAPER, 978-0-252-08533-8 $25.00x £18.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05231-6 A volume in the series The Geopolitics of Information, edited by Dan Schiller, Pradip Thomas, and Yuezhi Zhao
Comprehensive and timely, The Huawei Model offers an essential analysis of China’s dynamic development of digital economy and the global technology powerhouse at its core.
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YUN WEN is a senior economist at an economic policy research firm in Vancouver, Canada.
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TELEVISION AND THE AFGHAN CULTURE WARS
Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists
WAZHMAH OSMAN Analyzing television’s place in today’s Afghanistan “This critical work foregrounds the geopolitical context that leads to a television ‘boom,’ highlighting the important role of women and ethnic minority communities in Afghani media production and consumption. Television and Afghan Culture Wars is a must read for scholars and students of global media and American empire.” —PAULA CHAKRAVARTTY, coeditor of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime DECEMBER
Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women’s rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace.
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Fieldwork from across Afghanistan allowed Osman to record the voices of Afghan media producers and people from all sectors of society. In this moving work, Afghans offer their own seldom-heard views on the country’s cultural progress and belief systems, their understandings of themselves, and the role of international interventions. Osman looks at the national and transnational impact of media companies like Tolo TV, Radio Television Afghanistan, and foreign media giants and funders like the British Broadcasting Corporation and USAID. By focusing on local cultural contestations, productions, and social movements, Television and the Afghan Culture Wars redirects the global dialogue about Afghanistan to Afghans and thereby challenges top-down narratives of humanitarian development.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05243-9 A volume in the series The Geopolitics of Information, edited by Dan Schiller, Pradip Thomas, and Yuezhi Zhao All rights: University of Illinois
WAZHMAH OSMAN is a filmmaker and assistant professor in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. She is the codirector of the critically acclaimed documentary Postcards from Tora Bora and the coauthor of Afghanistan: A Very Short Introduction.
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WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES / EDUCATION
DEGREES OF DIFFERENCE
Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School
Edited by KIMBERLY D. McKEE and DENISE A. DELGADO Foreword by Karen J. Leong A go-to resource for helping women of color survive, and thrive, in grad school “The personal and the political are addressed in this multi faceted collection, which is a blanket of resources for graduate students and tenure-track academics, as well as for seasoned and tenured committee members, serving on university rank and tenure committees. Bravas! This is a great addition to a collection of groundbreaking literature in this area.” —GABRIELLA GUTIÉRREZ Y MUHS, editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
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University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental support, limited help from family and partners, imposter syndrome, narrow reading lists—all remain commonplace. Indifference to the struggles of women of color in graduate school and widespread dismissal of their work further poison an atmosphere that suffocates not only ambition but a person’s quality of life.
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In Degrees of Difference, women of color from diverse backgrounds give frank, unapologetic accounts of their battles—both internal and external—to navigate grad school and fulfill their ambitions. At the same time, the authors offer strategies for surviving the grind via stories of their own hard-won successes with self-care, building supportive communities, finding like-minded mentors, and resisting racism and unsupportive faculty and colleagues.
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Contributors: Aeriel A. Ashlee, Denise A. Delgado, Nwadiogo I. Ejiogu, Delia Fernández, Regina Emily Idoate, Karen J. Leong, Kimberly D. McKee, Délice Mugabo, Carrie Sampson, Arianna Taboada, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Soha Youssef KIMBERLY D. MCKEE is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University and the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States. DENISE A. DELGADO received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and works as an analyst and trainer.
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EBONY MAGAZINE AND LERONE BENNETT JR.
Popular Black History in Postwar America
E. JAMES WEST How Ebony educated African Americans about their history “A well-researched and accessible study situated within the growing field of black intellectual history, Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. is a major contribution to our understanding of what West aptly calls ‘popular black history.’” —PERO G. DAGBOVIE, author of Revisiting the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American history in the Twenty-First Century 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.
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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 the past and present.
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Mixing biography, cultural history, and popular memory, West restores Ebony and Bennett to their rightful place in African American intellectual, commercial, and political history.
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E. JAMES WEST is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American History at Northumbria University.
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COMMUNICATIONS / WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES
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Media and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
Edited by LINDA STEINER, CAROLYN KITCH, and BROOKE KROEGER The press and the long road to the Nineteenth Amendment “The centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment encourages a fresh rethinking of the history of the women’s suffrage movement, to which this volume is a welcome addition. Special kudos for its sustained attention to racial and regional diversity, as well as its broad chronological sweep.” —SUSAN WARE, author of Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote Suffragists recognized that the media played an essential role in the women’s suffrage movement and the public’s understanding of it. From parades to going to jail for voting, activists played to the mass media of their day. They also created an energetic niche media of suffragist journalism and publications.
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This collection offers new research on media issues related to the women’s suffrage movement. Contributors incorporate media theory, historiography, and innovative approaches to social movements while discussing the vexed relationship between the media and debates over suffrage. Aiming to correct past oversights, the essays explore overlooked topics such as coverage by African American and Mormonoriented media, media portrayals of black women in the movement, suffragist rhetorical strategies, elites within the movement, suffrage as part of broader campaigns for social transformation, and the influence views of white masculinity had on press coverage.
HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04310-9 $110.00x £91.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08497-3 $25.00x £19.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05198-2 A volume in the series The History of Communication, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone
Contributors: Maurine H. Beasley, Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Jinx C. Broussard, Teri Finneman, Kathy Roberts Forde, Linda M. Grasso, Carolyn Kitch, Brooke Kroeger, Linda J. Lumsden, Jane Marcellus, Jane Rhodes, Linda Steiner, and Robin Sundaramoorthy
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LINDA STEINER is a professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and a coauthor of Women and Journalism. CAROLYN KITCH is a professor of journalism and media & communication at Temple University and the author of Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past. BROOKE KROEGER is a professor of journalism at New York University and the author of The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote. Additional materials and educator resources can be found at suffrageandthemedia.org
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FASHIONING POSTFEMINISM
Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture
SIMIDELE DOSEKUN The serious business of being spectacular in Nigeria and the Global South “This book brilliantly challenges the assumption of whiteness and the Western location of the postfeminist female subject, documenting how postfeminism circulates well beyond the Global North. Dosekun demonstrates a rare sensitivity to place and to the specific norms circulating that space, which, as she underscores, shape the way in which postfeminism is taken up. The arguments are forceful, and the empirical material is handled with great care, sensitivity, and insight.” —CATHERINE ROTTENBERG, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
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Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty. From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media representations of women not only in a swatch of Africa but across an increasingly globalized world.
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Simidele Dosekun’s interviews and critical analysis consider the female subjectivities these women are performing and desiring. She finds that the women embody the postfeminist idea that their unapologetically immaculate beauty signals—but also constitutes—feminine power. As empowered global consumers and media citizens, the women deny any need to critique their culture or to take part in feminism’s collective political struggle. Throughout, Dosekun unearths evocative details around the practical challenges to attaining their style, examines the gap between how others view these women and how they view themselves, and engages with ideas about postfeminist self-fashioning and subjectivity across cultures and class.
PAPER, 978-0-252-08508-6 $26.00x £20.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05209-5 A volume in the series Dissident Feminisms, edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury All rights: University of Illinois
Intellectually provocative and rich with theory, Fashioning Postfeminism reveals why women choose to live, embody, and even suffer for a fascinating performative culture. SIMIDELE DOSEKUN is an assistant professor in media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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IMAGINING THE MULATTA
Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media
JASMINE MITCHELL Mixed-race women and popular culture in Brazil and the United States “An important and very readable work on the comparative histories and visual cultural formations of race and mixed race in Brazil and the United States.” —CAMILLA FOJAS, author of Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixedrace women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have perfected racial representation—all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and white supremacy that the mulatta narrative creates.
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Jasmine Mitchell investigates the development and exploitation of the mulatta figure in Brazilian and US popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, she analyzes policy debates and reveals the use of mixed-black female celebrities as subjects of racial and gendered discussions. Mitchell also unveils the ways the media moralizes about the mulatta figure and uses her as an example of an “acceptable” version of blackness that at once dreams of erasing undesirable blackness while maintaining the qualities that serve as outlets for interracial desire.
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JASMINE MITCHELL is an assistant professor of American studies and media and communication at SUNY Old Westbury.
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GRAPHIC NEWS
How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism
AMANDA FRISKEN Pictures, profits, and peril in the yellow journalism era “A deeply researched and acutely observed social and cultural history of journalism that, with particular attention to popular visual media, delineates the ways publications’ reportorial conventions and practices shaped and were shaped by the era’s gender, race, and class relations.” —JOSHUA BROWN, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth century. From 1870 to 1900, newspapers disrupted conventional reporting methods with sensationalized line drawings. A fierce hunger for profits motivated the shift to emotion-driven, visual content. But the new approach, while popular, often targeted, and further marginalized, vulnerable groups.
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Amanda Frisken examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural events— obscenity litigation, anti-Chinese bloodshed, the Ghost Dance, lynching, and domestic violence—changed the public’s consumption of the news. Using intersectional analysis, Frisken explores how these newfound visualizations of events during episodes of social and political controversy allowed newspapers and social activists alike to communicate—or challenge—prevailing understandings of racial, class, and gender identities and cultural power.
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AMANDA FRISKEN is a professor of American Studies at SUNY College at Old Westbury. She is the author of Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America.
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FIGHTING FASCIST SPAIN
Worker Protest from the Printing Press
MONTSE FEU Publishing a vision of freedom and democracy “A detailed and comprehensive history of [a] network of artists, intellectuals, and common folk who worked together for some four decades to combat fascism in Franco’s Spain. . . . Feu has successfully brought to light an important chapter in the making of the US Latino community and its transnational impact. Taking the combative periodical España Libre as the axis around which community organizations in New York coalesced and found common cause, Feu identifies all of the major actors and their ideologies.” —NICOLÁS KANELLOS, author of Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno
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In the 1930s, anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants living in the United States created the publication España Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the Nationalist takeover in their homeland. Worker-oriented and avowedly antifascist, the grassroots periodical raised money for refugees and political prisoners while advancing left-wing culture and politics. España Libre proved both visionary and durable, charting an alternate path toward a modern Spain and enduring until democracy’s return to the country in 1977.
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Montse Feu merges España Libre’s story with the drama of the Spanish immigrant community’s fight against fascism. The periodical emerged as part of a transnational effort to link migrants and new exiles living in the United States to antifascist networks abroad. In addition to showing how workers’ culture and politics shaped their antifascism, Feu brings to light creative works that ranged from literature to satire to cartoons to theater. As España Libre opened up radical practices, it encouraged allies to reject violence in favor of social revolution’s potential for joy and inclusion.
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MONTSE FEU is an associate professor of Hispanic studies and co-advisor of graduate studies for the Spanish program at Sam Houston State University. She is the author of Jesús González Malo: Correspondencia personal y política de un anarcosindicalista exiliado (1943–1965).
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THE ENFORCERS
How Little-Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism
ROB WELLS With a foreword by David Cay Johnston Lessons from the past and business journalism’s bold future “By delving into the role of trade press in the Keating and some other scandals, Wells throws a spotlight on the strengths, shortcomings, and blind spots of American journalism. He is rigorous in his reporting and unsparing in both his criticisms and praise. . . . After you read these pages, take some time to ponder what Wells reveals and what you can do to improve accountability through journalism as a journalist or a consumer of news, and remember that those little trade papers are in many ways bright gems of American journalism.” —DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, author of It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America, from the foreword
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In the 1980s, real estate developer and banker Charles H. Keating executed one of the largest savings and loans frauds in United States history. Keating had long used the courts to muzzle critical reporting of his business dealings, but aggressive reporting by a small trade paper called the National Thrift News helped bring down Keating and offered an inspiring example of business journalism that speaks truth to power.
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Rob Wells tells the story through the work of Stan Strachan, a veteran financial journalist who uncovered Keating’s misdeeds and links to a group of US senators—the Keating Five—who bullied regulators on his behalf. Editorial decisions at the National Thrift News angered advertisers and readers, but the newsroom sold ownership on the idea of investigative reporting as a commercial opportunity. Examining the National Thrift News’s approach, Wells calls for a new era of business reporting that can and must embrace its potential as a watchdog safeguarding the interests of the public.
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ROB WELLS is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Arkansas and a former journalist with the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and the Associated Press.
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ON TREND
The Business of Forecasting the Future
DEVON POWERS Prophets churning profits in the mysterious world of trend professionals “On Trend is wide-ranging, yet it holds together through a fusion of scholarly reconstruction and engaged critique. Such a combination is often intended but seldom so well executed.” —SCOTT MCLEMEE, Inside Higher Ed
“If you think hot trends just whirl up like dust storms, think again: This fascinating book pulls the curtain back on an entire industry devoted to shaping our perceptions of what matters—and with it, the future itself.” —FRED TURNER, author of The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
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Trends have become a commodity—an element of culture in their own right and the very currency of our cultural life. Consumer culture relies on a new class of professionals who explain trends, predict trends, and, in profound ways, even manufacture trends.
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On Trend delves into one of the most powerful forces in global consumer culture. From forecasting to cool hunting to design thinking, the work done by trend professionals influences how we live, work, play, shop, and learn. Devon Powers’s provocative insights open up how the business of the future kindles exciting opportunity even as its practices raise questions about an economy increasingly built on nonstop disruption and innovation. Merging industry history with vivid portraits of today’s trend visionaries, Powers reveals how trends took over, what it means for cultural change, and the price all of us pay to see—and live—the future.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05173-9 All rights: University of Illinois
DEVON POWERS is an associate professor of advertising at Temple University. She is the author of Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism and coeditor of Blowing Up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture.
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THE JOURNALIST OF CASTRO STREET
The Life of Randy Shilts
ANDREW E. STONER The new biography of an iconic and controversial figure “A major contribution to gay history.” —BOOKLIST
“A serious account of the life of one of the twentieth century’s most divisive gay figures.” —TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT As the acclaimed author of And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts became the country’s most recognized voice on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His success emerged from a relentless work ethic and strong belief in the power of journalism to help mainstream society understand not just the rising tide of HIV/ AIDS but gay culture and liberation.
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In-depth and dramatic, Andrew E. Stoner’s biography follows the remarkable life of the brash, pioneering journalist. Shilts’s reporting on AIDS in San Francisco broke barriers even as other gay writers and activists ridiculed his overtures to the mainstream and labeled him a traitor to the movement, charges the combative Shilts forcefully answered. Behind the scenes, Shilts overcame career-threatening struggles with alcohol and substance abuse to achieve the notoriety he had always sought, while the HIV infection he had purposely kept hidden began to take his life.
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Filled with new insights and fascinating detail, The Journalist of Castro Street reveals the historic work and passionate humanity of the legendary investigative reporter and author. ANDREW E. STONER is an assistant professor of communication studies at California State University, Sacramento. His books include Campaign Crossroads: Presidential Politics in Indiana from Lincoln to Obama.
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HOMELAND MATERNITY
US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime
NATALIE FIXMER-ORAIZ Motherhood and motherland in contemporary America “This book is devastatingly good. Good because it is elegantly written, tightly argued, and theoretically informed and informative. Devastating because it makes clear that a nasty thicket of laws, institutions, and rhetoric values pregnancy (even a potential pregnancy) more than the integrity, safety, and humanity of women, pregnant people, and mothers.” —ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY
“Decidedly grounded in an ethic of reproductive justice and its bringing together of ‘feminist studies of maternal and reproductive politics and critical scholarship on homeland security culture,’ (3–4) Homeland Maternity provides a necessary and nuanced framework for naming and understanding complex, urgent events around reproductive politics today.” —IZG ONZEIT In US security culture, motherhood is a site of intense contestation—both a powerful form of cultural currency and a target of unprecedented assault. Linked by an atmosphere of crisis and perceived vulnerability, motherhood and nation have become intimately entwined, dangerously positioning national security as reliant on the control of women’s bodies.
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Drawing on feminist scholarship and critical studies of security culture, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz explores homeland maternity by calling our attention to the ways that authorities see both nonreproductive and “overly” reproductive women’s bodies as threats to social norms—and thus to security. Homeland maternity culture intensifies motherhood’s requirements and works to discipline those who refuse to adhere. Analyzing the opt-out revolution, public debates over emergency contraception, and other controversies, Fixmer-Oraiz compellingly demonstrates how policing maternal bodies serves the political function of securing the nation in a time of supposed danger—with profound and troubling implications for women’s lives and agency.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05119-7 A volume in the series Feminist Media Studies, edited by Carol Stabile All rights: University of Illinois
NATALIE FIXMER-ORAIZ is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Iowa.
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