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Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call

eBook - Activist Voice for Social Justice
LEXINGTON BOOKS
ISBN/EAN: 9781498535649
Umbreit-Nr.: 2124903

Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 112 S.
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Einband: Keine Angabe

Erschienen am 04.04.2018
Auflage: 1/2018


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  • Zusatztext
    • <span><span>This book on publisher and editor Lucile H. Bluford examines her journalistic writings on social, economic, and political issues; her strong opinionated views on African Americans and women; and whether there were consistent themes, biases, and assumptions in her stories that may have influenced news coverage in the</span><span>Kansas City Call</span><span>. It traces the beginnings of her activism as a young reporter seeking admission to the graduate program in journalism at the University of Missouri and how her admissions rejection became the catalyst for her seven-decade career as a champion of racial and gender equality.</span></span><br><span><span>Blufords work at the</span><span>Kansas City Call</span><span> demonstrates how critical theorists used storytelling to describe personal experiences of struggle and oppression to inform the public of racial and gender consciousness.</span><span>Lucile H. Bluford and the</span><span> Kansas City Call illustrates how she used her social authority in the formidable power base of the weekly Black newspaper she owned, shaping and mobilizing a broader movement in the fight for freedom and social justice. This book focuses on a selection of Blufords news stories and editorials from 1968 to 1983 as examples of how she articulated a Black feminist standpoint advocating a Black liberation agendaequal access to decent jobs, affordable health care and housing, and a better education in Kansas City, Missouri. Blufords writings represented what the mainstream news ignored, exposing injustices and inequalities in the African American community and among feminists.</span></span>
  • Kurztext
    • <span><span>This book examines the journalism of editor and publisher Lucile H. Bluford. Focusing on selections from her writing in the </span><span>Kansas City Call</span><span> from 1968 to 1983, it explores how she articulated a Black feminist standpoint and exposed injustices faced by African Americans and women that were otherwise ignored by mainstream media.</span></span>
  • Autorenportrait
    • <span><span>Sheila Brooks</span><span> is founder, president, and CEO of SRB Communications, an award-winning, full-service advertising and marketing agency in Washington, D.C. specializing in multicultural markets.<br><br></span><span>Clint C. Wilson II</span><span> is professor emeritus of journalism, communication, culture and media studies at Howard University and recipient of the University of Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism.</span></span>