... attention. The black press mobilized the stories of black soldiers caring for Korean children to advance the fight for African Americans’ civil rights in the military and throughout US society. However, African American soldiers’ social and sexual relationships with Korean women revealed the ways that many...

...This chapter examines Black visibility in public culture and how picturing freedom works as a means of conceptualizing nationhood. It considers the treatment of Black freedom in the Black press and explains how the powerful combination of words and images in caricatures became the unchecked...

... rule Gilmer D J Gershwin George Mencken H L Miller Kelly Colored Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Settle Glenn T Jim Crow Wholesomeness religious race professionals black middle class public intellectuals jazz swing dancing black press emotionalism Star of Zion Africo-American...

...-century black press, the writings of black feminist Anna Julia Cooper, Asian American novels, African American and Asian American commercial film and documentary—the book does not seek to document signs of cross-racial identification, but instead demonstrates how the logic of citizenship compels...

... analyzes black press rhetoric, revealing that some forms of rhetoric do indeed transgress norms of rationality, but do so in ways that are intentionally made visible to readers in order to expose the ideologically freighted idea of what counts as rational discourse in the public sphere. Transgressive...

... Mahalia Ralph Carmichael Choir White Protestant Christianity Gibson Don Jones Quincy Sermon Strayhorn Billy Wilson Gerald Irreverence irreverent Religious practice Theology Ella Fitzgerald Chick Webb black press civil rights desegregation integration jazz criticism authenticity Southern...