Print Culture In A Diverse America
Reading off the beaten track with marginalized Americans and their print cultures
Paper – $34
978-0-252-06699-3
Publication Date
Paperback: 06/01/1998
About the Book
In the modern era there arose a prolific and vibrant print culture-books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups. This long-overdue collection offers a unique foray into the multicultural world of reading and readers in the United States.
Interdisciplinary essays examine the many ways print culture functions within different groups; they link gender, class, and ethnicity to the uses and goals of a wide variety of publications; and they explore the role print materials play in constructing certain historical events, such as the Titanic disaster.
About the Author
James Danky is a faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication and cofounder of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America. He is the coauthor of Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix. Wayne B. Wiegand is F. Williams Summers Professor of Library and Information Sciences and a professor of American studies at Florida State University. He is the coauthor of Books On Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland. Danky and Wiegand coedited Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.Reviews
"Each of the essays provides a fascinating insight into a field often ignored by media historians."--Margaret A. Blanchard, Communications Bulletin Quarterly"Despite the diversity of topics and periods covered in this essay collection, it hangs together well as a book trying to address some neglected areas of research while fitting into an established historiographical framework. . . . I would encourage anyone interested in any aspect of the print culture of the modern United States to pick up this book."--Journal of the Printing Historical Society
Awards
• Winner, Carey McWilliams Award given by MultiCultural Review, 1999Related Titles
