{"product_id":"ebony-magazine-and-lerone-bennett-jr-9780252084980","title":"Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fresh and fascinating exploration of \u003ci\u003eEbony's\u003c\/i\u003e political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. The magazine's status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both past and present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Time's\u003c\/i\u003e Books Not to Miss\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eBlack Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e Best Black History Book of 2020\u003cbr\u003e Honorable Mention, Research Society for American Periodicals, 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"By emphasizing Bennett's role and placing the magazine within the context of each stage of the postwar Black Freedom Struggle, West thoughtfully connects Black Americans' historical perspectives with the social transformations occurring in postwar America.\" --\u003ci\u003eJournal of African American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"West thoroughly dispels the critical tendency to dismiss or overlook a magazine like \u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e as too commercially oriented to be of cultural or historical significance.\" --\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"West presents media scholars and educators with a new way of viewing \u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e and its founder, John Harold Johnson. Thanks to West, researchers are better able to visualize \u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e as more than 'a black counterpart to \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e magazine' and Johnson as more than just an entrepreneur who targeted his magazine's content to the black bourgeois.\" --\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e”E. James West’s book is the first major examination of \u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e as a forum for black historical discourse and the magazine’s long-time executive editor Lerone Bennett Jr.’s multifaceted thought, work, and scholarship as a leading popular historian of the black past and vital contributor to the post-war black history movement. A well-researched and accessible study situated within the growing field of black intellectual history, \u003ci\u003eEbony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution to our understanding of what West aptly calls 'popular black history.'”—Pero G. Dagbovie, author of \u003ci\u003eRevisiting the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American history in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"West expertly chronicles how \u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and its executive editor Lerone Bennett Jr. shaped cultural perception of African-American history. . . . This astute history shines a welcome light on a pioneering journalist. \" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fantastic, deeply-contextualized new book about \u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e and Bennett.\" --\u003ci\u003eIMixWhatILike\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This concise, illuminating book serves as a useful marker for a full-fledged (and long overdue) critical history of \u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e, a major American magazine, in all its glories and travails.\" --\u003ci\u003ePopMatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Recommended.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864292176215,"sku":"9780252084980","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252084980.jpg?v=1722271261","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ebony-magazine-and-lerone-bennett-jr-9780252084980","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}