A transplanted Chicago : race, place and the press in Iowa City /

"This book looks at the movement of urban Blacks into small-city America through the experience of Iowa City, a town desperately trying to redefine itself. Examines how the region and its ever-diversifying small cities continue to struggle with deciding who gets to define community identity and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gutsche, Robert E., Jr., 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014.
Temas:
African Americans > Iowa > Iowa City > History.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > History.
Migration, Internal > United States > History.
African Americans > Press coverage > Iowa > Iowa City > History.
Journalism > Social aspects > Iowa > Iowa City > History.
African American neighborhoods > Iowa > Iowa City > History.
Community life > Iowa > Iowa City > History.
Noirs américains > Iowa > Iowa City > Histoire.
Presse > Aspect social > Iowa > Iowa City > Histoire.
Quartiers noirs américains > Iowa > Iowa City > Histoire.
Communauté > Iowa > Iowa City > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African American neighborhoods.
African Americans.
African Americans > Press coverage.
Community life.
Emigration and immigration.
Journalism > Social aspects.
Migration, Internal.
Race relations.
Chicago (Ill.) > Emigration and immigration.
Iowa City (Iowa) > Emigration and immigration.
Iowa City (Iowa) > Race relations.
Illinois > Chicago.
Iowa > Iowa City.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Welcome to the rural ghetto : "Southeast Side" as "Little Chicago"
  • How news explains everyday life
  • Place and its purpose
  • Building the ghetto : reading news as cultural mortar
  • News of "The Inner City" : racializing the Southeast Side
  • What's the Southeast Side? : mental mapping to construct place
  • Whose Southeast Side? : mapping place
  • The subtle power of the press : place and its ideological function
  • School news : press constructions of "schools-as-place"
  • Conclusion: On the role of news, place and being human
  • Epilogue: Beyond the Southeast Side : news "place-making" elsewhere.

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