Resistance Advocacy as Nes Digital Black Press Covers the Tea Party [Hardcover]

Resistance Advocacy as News is an important and timely consideration of one of the most-often overlooked alternative presses in the United States: the black press. Black press historians have for a long time heralded its role in shaping black consciousness, identity, and activism as far back as 1827s Freedoms Journal, and LaPoe and LaPoes work reminds us that the black press resonates not only as a voice of the past but also in our divided present. This book is essential reading for scholars interested in the black presss role in shaping US politics as well as aspiring and practicing journalists.In an era of unprecedented attack on the fourth estate, mainstream media is on its heels searching for relevance. Perhaps now more than ever it is time for the mainstream to seek answers from the masters of the marginsthe journalists of the black press. Lapoe and Lapoe tell a story of digital black newspapers that unflinchingly confronted the racial implications of the Tea Party. Ultimately, the black press anticipated todays normalization of white supremacist policies in ways the mainstream media could not. Resistance Advocacy as News bears witness to why black press matters for a multiracial democracy.This timely book provides a rich history of how both the black press and mainstream media covered the Tea Party during former President Barack Obamas stint as leader of the United States. Chapters compare and contrast the mainstream and black press narrative of the Tea Party and explore racial implicitness in the black and mainstream press. This content is of interest to both students and scholars of race, media, sociology, and politics. The authors have done a good job of providing an overview of this important topic.This book examines the Black and mainstream presss digital interpretations of the Tea Party during President Barack Obamas first term. It addresses questions surrounding the idea of our society as one that is postracial and the ongoing struggle of Blal³q