Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Untangling discourses of representation in black press celebrity reporting
  • Early crossover black celebrities and the onus of collective representation
  • Black celebrities uplift the race
  • Shaping "dreams into reality": the mythologizing of black celebrities
  • The marginalization of black female celebrities as race representatives
  • National heroes, foreign villains, and un-hyphenated Americans
  • Journalistic commemoration and the construction of a "felt" past
  • The politics of black press celebrity journalism
  • Afterword: the enduring role of the entertainer-activist in an uncertain media landscape.