{"product_id":"pleasure-in-the-news-kim-gallon-9780252085093","title":"Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press Volume 1","description":"Critics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In \u003ci\u003ePleasure in the News\u003c\/i\u003e, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance--arguing that African American newspapers fostered black sexual expression, agency, and identity. \u003cp\u003eGallon discusses how journalists and editors created black sexual publics that offered everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics that exposed class and gender tensions. While black churches and black schools often encouraged sexual restraint, the black press printed stories that complicated notions about respectability. Sensational coverage also expanded African American women's sexual consciousness and demonstrated the tenuous position of female impersonators, black gay men, and black lesbians in early twentieth African American urban communities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInformative and empowering, \u003ci\u003ePleasure in the News\u003c\/i\u003e redefines the significance of the black press in African American history and advancement while shedding light on the important cultural and social role that sexuality played in the power of the black press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Gallon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252085094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252085093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Kim Gallon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978285383935,"sku":"9780252085093","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5941cee5-375e-4833-b305-d4eb9792e714.jpg?v=1683240705","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pleasure-in-the-news-kim-gallon-9780252085093","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}