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The Black press : a shadowed Canadian tradition /

"The Black Press brings together original, multidisciplinary research that explores the history and impact of Black newspapers in Canada. This collection of essays introduces readers to the rich archive of Black Canadian journalism, spanning the period from the abolitionist to the modern civil...

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Other Authors: Bonner, Claudine (Editor), Ébanda de B'béri, Boulou (Editor), Reid-Maroney, Nina, 1961- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2025]
Series:African and diasporic cultural studies.
Subjects:
Black newspapers > Canada > History.
Journalism > Social aspects > Canada > History.
Journalists > Canada > History.
Black Canadians > History.
Presse > Aspect social > Canada > Histoire.
Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection.
Essays.
Table of Contents:
  • An Education without Walls: The Voice of the Fugitive and the Provincial Freeman as an Unconventional Classroom / Lorene Bridgen-Lennie
  • The Black Press and The Voice of the Bondsman / Neil Brooks, Nina Reid-Maroney, Scott Schofield
  • As Seen in the News: Representations of Blackness in Mainstream Nova Scotian Newspapers, 1867-1910 / Claudine Bonner
  • Georgiana Whetsel and the Case for Nineteenth-Century Black New Brunswick Newspaper Culture / Jennifer Harris
  • "Read. Important." Anderson Ruffin Abbott's Missionary Messenger Scrapbooks / Nina Reid-Maroney
  • "You Will Do the Race and Yourselves Much Good": The Black Athlete and Sport Discourse in The Clarion (1946-1949) / Ornella Nzindukiyimana
  • Brand Advertising in Contrast in the 1970s: Selling Race and Culture Through Beer / Cheryl Thompson.