Black communities in the 1920s-30s lacked press independent of white financial control
Evidence
The skewed structure of public access to the media. Access and visibility in the media exhibit a clearly defined social structure. The media favors power groups, accredited elite witnesses, institutional spokesmen, experts, as against “out-groups”—the socially dispossessed or disorganized, the deviant, ethnic minorities, working-class groups, etc. When the latter groups appear they systematically tend to have their problems defined for them . They are always carefully “balanced out.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 851 (
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Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning reimagining of the Underground Railroad as a literal rail system embeds Cora’s escape in a sequence of regional propaganda regimes (the eugenics hospital in South Carolina, North Carolina’s televised lynchings). The pillars synthesize through the figure of the printed broadside, the fugitive poster, and Cora’s stolen literacy. The novel argues that communication infrastructures and racial inequity are co-constitutive across every era of American history. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1160 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: West Africans lost their prewar legal press freedoms in the 1920s; Communication infrastructures and racial inequity are co-constitutive across American history — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1160; Media access structurally favors elites against out-groups whose problems get defined for them — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 851
Related
- Communication infrastructures and racial inequity are co-constitutive across American history (similarity 0.83)
Broader Connections
- Media access structurally favors elites against out-groups whose problems get defined for them
#expands(0.65) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 851 - Communication infrastructures and racial inequity are co-constitutive across American history
#corroborates(0.60) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1160