Fight for a New America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23185809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D’weston Haywood (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 57-80 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Journalism and Jim Crow (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5622/illinois/9780252044106.003.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W4285332176 |
| ISBN | 9780252044106 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This chapter explores the work of militant Black journalists like T. Thomas Fortune, Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B. Du Bois who mobilized to combat the political economies and social orders of the New South—and directly attacked Grady. Black journalism became the incubator of Black activism. The men and women of the Black press built a critical Black discursive space for Black Americans to debate, organize, and mobilize and exposed the New South as a regime of racial control. They rejected the New South narrative and the anti-Black systems and structures it spawned and fought instead to build a “New America” that respected Black civil, political and human rights, a truly multiracial and democratic America.
Art · Democracy · Journalism · Militant · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |