4/15/2023 0 Comments Black man reader voiceleads the reader through the twentieth-century heyday of African American newspaper publishing. “This compelling exploration of the black press. “Covers new ground on the twentieth-century African American struggle for civil rights to make important, well-crafted points about gender, race, and the media.”- Annals of Iowa Readers will benefit from Haywood’s careful deconstructions of the complex, and at times, competing “manly visions” offered by Black newspapermen.”- Black Perspectives “Clearly articulates how gender indelibly shapes racial justice and the Black Press’ historical role in advancing it. "For readers interested in the history of the black freedom struggle, this work delivers an alternative and important view of the actors involved in producing the black press."- Library Journal, Starred Review Shedding crucial new light on the deep roots of African Americans' mobilizations around issues of rights and racial justice during the twentieth century, Let Us Make Men reveals the critical, complex role black male publishers played in grounding those issues in a quest to redeem black manhood. This history departs from standard narratives of black protest, black men, and the black press by positioning newspapers at the intersections of gender, ideology, race, class, identity, urbanization, the public sphere, and black institutional life. In a story that stretches from the turn of the twentieth century to the rise of the Black Power movement, D'Weston Haywood argues that black people's ideas, rhetoric, and protest strategies for racial advancement grew out of the quest for manhood led by black newspapers. Those at the helm of black newspapers used their platforms to wage a fight for racial justice and black manhood. During its golden years, the twentieth-century black press was a tool of black men's leadership, public voice, and gender and identity formation.
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