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Pleasure in the News - African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (Paperback)
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Pleasure in the News - African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (Paperback)
Series: New Black Studies Series
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Critics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for
focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American
achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing
stance-arguing that African American newspapers fostered black
sexual expression, agency, and identity. Gallon discusses how
journalists and editors created black sexual publics that offered
everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics
that exposed class and gender tensions. While black churches and
black schools often encouraged sexual restraint, the black press
printed stories that complicated notions about respectability.
Sensational coverage also expanded African American women's sexual
consciousness and demonstrated the tenuous position of female
impersonators, black gay men, and black lesbians in early twentieth
African American urban communities. Informative and empowering,
Pleasure in the News redefines the significance of the black press
in African American history and advancement while shedding light on
the important cultural and social role that sexuality played in the
power of the black press.
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