Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to Rodney King
Since the early nineteenth century, African-Americans have turned to Black newspapers to monitor the mainstream media and to develop alternative interpretations of public events. Ronald Jacobs tells the stories of these newspapers—in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles—for the first time, comparing African-American and "mainstream" media coverage of racial crises such as the Watts riot, the beating of Rodney King, the Los Angeles uprisings and the O. J. Simpson trial. In an engaging yet...
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Charts the history, development and influence of the African-American Press.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Race, media, and multiple publics192Historicizing the public spheres: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago313The Watts uprisings of 1965544The Rodney King beating815Rodney King 1992113Conclusion140Notes152Bibliography175Index186
