{"product_id":"looking-at-the-stars-carrie-teresa-9780803299924","title":"Looking at the Stars: Black Celebrity Journalism in Jim Crow America","description":"As early as 1900, when moving-picture and recording technologies began to bolster entertainment-based leisure markets, journalists catapulted entertainers to godlike status, heralding their achievements as paragons of American self-determination. Not surprisingly, mainstream newspapers failed to cover black entertainers, whose \"inherent inferiority\" precluded them from achieving such high cultural status. Yet those same celebrities came alive in the pages of black press publications written by and for members of urban black communities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eLooking at the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e Carrie Teresa explores the meaning of celebrity as expressed by black journalists writing against the backdrop of Jim Crow-era segregation. Teresa argues that journalists and editors working for these black-centered publications, rather than simply mimicking the reporting conventions of mainstream journalism, instead framed celebrities as collective representations of the race who were then used to symbolize the cultural value of artistic expression influenced by the black diaspora and to promote political activism through entertainment. The social conscience that many contemporary entertainers of color exhibit today arguably derives from the way black press journalists once conceptualized the symbolic role of \"celebrity\" as a tool in the fight against segregation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Based on a discourse analysis of the entertainment content of the period's most widely read black press newspapers, \u003ci\u003eLooking at the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e takes into account both the institutional perspectives and the discursive strategies used in the selection and framing of black celebrities in the context of Jim Crowism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carrie Teresa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803299923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803299924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2019","brand":"Carrie Teresa","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981254459647,"sku":"9780803299924","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_05cc1d2a-dfd4-447c-bf82-78e1708b3717.jpg?v=1683254509","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/looking-at-the-stars-carrie-teresa-9780803299924","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}