From Our Faculty...

The following is a brief list of works published by NYU Journalism faculty related to the race and class issues presented in this special issue

Online Resources

David Dent
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In Search of Black America : Discovering the African-American Dream
Exposing myths and exploding stereotypes, this book looks at the lives of African Americans throughout the United States. Dent set out on a cross-country road trip into the heart of black America with stops in Detroit; Washington, D.C.; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Gallipolis, Ohio; Seattle, Washington; Hampton, Virginia; and many other places, including Lawnside, New Jersey, a historically black town with strong roots and ties to the Underground Railroad.

Brooke Kroeger
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Fannie: The Talent For Success Of Writer Fannie Hurst
Out of fashion today, Hurst's work was praised in its time as a model of the storyteller's art and served as the basis for many popular films. She was also a staunch liberal, feminist, and forceful advocate of civil rights. Kroeger traces the action-packed trajectory of Hurst's busy life, from a middle-class childhood in St. Louis as the daughter of assimilated German Jews to her later years spent residing in a lavish New York City triplex apartment.

Imitating Life: Women, Race, and Film 1932-2000
An interdisciplinary conference at Princeton University, Program in African American Studies
September 22-23, 2000

Susie Linfield
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American Graffiti: Reflections On Race, Memory And Dreams
Published in: The Nation, April 5, 1999

Pam Newkirk
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Media Matters: Some Are Down, Some Are Out
Published in: The Nation, September 28, 1998

Offline Resources

Ellen Willis
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"The Up and Up: On the Limits of Optimism", Transition #74 (Dec. 1998)


"Their Libertarianism—And Ours",
Published in: "Dissent", Fall 1997

"The Median is the Message",
Published in: The Village Voice, 11/15/94

Pam Newkirk

Whitewash in the Newsroom: Thirty years after the Kerner Report, the media are still racially biased"
Published in: The Nation, March 16, 1998

 

"Media Matters: So Much for Newsroom Diversity"
Published in: The Nation, July 6, 1998

Other Links

Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874

The site contains illustrations, cartoons, editorials, news stories, advertisements, poems,and a short story from the pages of the nation's leading 19th-century newspaper. Topics presented include slavery, emancipation, black military service, black political participation, black women, and anti-black violence. Also on the site are an introduction to _Harper's Weekly_, historical notes, annotated timelines, and a Reconstruction simulation game intended for classroom use.