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Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement

Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement

Haywood, D'Weston

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Writing Instruction20th Century United States HistoryBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 1469643391
ISBN13: 9781469643397
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Oct 8 2018
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
During its golden years, the twentieth-century black press was a tool of black men's leadership, public voice, and gender and identity formation. Those at the helm of black newspapers used their platforms to wage a fight for racial justice and black manhood. In a story that stretches from the turn of the twentieth century to the rise of the Black Power movement, D'Weston Haywood argues that black people's ideas, rhetoric, and protest strategies for racial advancement grew out of the quest for manhood led by black newspapers.

This history departs from standard narratives of black protest, black men, and the black press by positioning newspapers at the intersections of gender, ideology, race, class, identity, urbanization, the public sphere, and black institutional life. Shedding crucial new light on the deep roots of African Americans' mobilizations around issues of rights and racial justice during the twentieth century, Let Us Make Men reveals the critical, complex role black male publishers played in grounding those issues in a quest to redeem black manhood.

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