LEADER 04589cam a2200613 i 4500001 99119516893506421 005 20240606082839.0 008 200211s2020 ilua b s001 0 eng^^ 010 2019054548 019 1122801988 020 9780252043222 |qhardcover 020 0252043227 |qhardcover 020 9780252085093 |qpaperback 020 0252085094 |qpaperback 020 |z9780252052101 |qelectronic book 035 |9(YDXIT)16482309 035 (NjP)11951689-princetondb 035 |z(OCoLC)1122801988 035 |z(NjP)Voyager11951689 035 |z(NjP)Voyager11951689 035 (OCoLC)on1122804572 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dYDX 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 050 00 PN4882.5 |b.G35 2020 082 00 071.308996073 |223 100 1 Gallon, Kim T. |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011033631 245 10 Pleasure in the news : |bAfrican American readership and sexuality in the Black press / |cKim Gallon. 264 1 Urbana : |bUniversity of Illinois Press, |c[2020] 300 x, 200 pages : |billustrations ; |c23 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 0 The new Black studies series 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 "Throughout the twentieth century, the black press (alongside the black church) served as one of the most venerable black institutions. As such a respected site, the black press certainly wielded important influence on the way African Americans viewed sexuality and shaped sexual identities. What happens, then, when we take the sexy, unsavory side of the black newspaper business and look at sensational and tabloid journalism as valuable and worthy source material for understanding the black press and its influence? Kim T. Gallon explores that very question by using sensational news coverage as well as readers's letters to the editor to historicize black sexuality. In doing so, Gallon constructs a history of African American sexuality and modernity predicated on the relationship between the black press and its readers between 1925 and 1950--the vibrant interwar era of jazz journalism, the Great Depression, the Harlem Renaissance, and the New Negro Movement. Gallon demonstrates that sexual discourse in black newspapers highlighted intraracial class and gender tensions that reshaped African Americans' struggles for racial progress and uplift in the early twentieth century. The black press, in this context, served as a public sphere for modern conceptions and discussions about sexuality. Coverage of bathing beauty pageants, divorce trials and sex scandals, interracial romance and male homosexuality coexisted with ideas and representations dedicated to transforming the African American public image into one that could help African American leaders make the case for full citizenship. The simultaneity of sexual images with racial uplift in the black press demonstrated that modern African Americans possessed the capacity to be at once respectable and sexual. To this end, the early twentieth-century black press functioned as more than a simple advocate for social change relative to racial progress. Rather, it embodied core tenets of American modernity and provided a space for African Americans to work out modern class and gender tensions through sexuality"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 African American newspapers |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Sex |xPress coverage |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Sex role |xPress coverage |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Press and politics |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109577 650 7 African American newspapers. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00799278 650 7 Press and politics. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01075866 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 |iOnline version:Gallon, Kim T., |tPleasure in the news |dUrbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020. |z9780252052101 |w(DLC) 2019054549 830 0 New Black studies series 902 kl |bs |6a |7m |dv |f1 |e20200812 904 pad |bo |hm |cb |e20200724 910 |cD0101mon 914 (OCoLC)on1122804572 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240530 |eprocessed |f1122804572 980 |i110.00 |j90.20 |n40029981284 982 |bFY20 |n2020 |q32101111048565 986 |hPN4882.5 |i.G35 2020