Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press Volume 1

by Kim T. Gallon

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252085094
• ISBN13: 9780252085093
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"