Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. : Popular Black History in Postwar America
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 33528590
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- ISBN
- 9780252043116
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book provides a major reassessment of Ebony magazine, the most popular Black periodical in modern American history. Long derided as a consumerist vehicle of wish fulfilment for the Black bourgeoisie, West positions Ebony as a vital voice for ‘popular Black history’ and a lynchpin in the postwar Black history movement. Drawing on 29 different archival collections, including the unprocessed personal papers of senior editor and in-house historian Lerone Bennett Jr., and mining information from more than 41 periodicals, the book demonstrates how Ebony shifted Black history from the margins to the centre of the nation’s cultural and political imagination.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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