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Author: Gordon S. Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-14
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0429722834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an in-depth analysis of the economic difficulties facing journalism, including the impact of television's increasing share of the advertising market. It focuses on the alternative press, which arose in the mid-1980s at the height of the government's crackdown on dissent.
Author: Bryan Trabold
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2018-06-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780822965442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period of apartheid was a perilous time in South Africa’s history. This book examines the tactics of resistance developed by those working for the Weekly Mail and New Nation, two opposition newspapers published in South Africa in the mid- and late 1980s. The government, in an attempt to crack down on the massive political resistance sweeping the country, had imposed martial law and imposed even greater restrictions on the press. Bryan Trabold examines the writing, legal, and political strategies developed by those working for these newspapers to challenge the censorship restrictions as much as possible—without getting banned. Despite the many steps taken by the government to silence them, including detaining the editor of New Nation for two years and temporarily closing both newspapers, the Weekly Mail and New Nation not only continued to publish but actually increased their circulations and obtained strong domestic and international support. New Nation ceased publication in 1994 after South Africa made the transition to democracy, but the Weekly Mail, now the Mail & Guardian, continues to publish and remains one of South Africa’s most respected newspapers.
Author: Abiodun Salawu
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-02-02
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1137547308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with the often-neglected link between indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa. It recognizes that the media plays an amplifying role that is vital to modern-day expression, public participation and democracy but that without the agency to harness media potential, many Africans will be excluded from public discourse.
Author: Keyan G. Tomaselli
Publisher: Iacademic Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Stewart
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9004491341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a political sociology of whites in the last years of apartheid in South Africa, this book provides an analysis of the social origins and social context of political attitudes among a sample of middle-class, English-speaking whites in selected suburbs in the city of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province. It reveals that such attitudes emanated in the context of acute and continuing political polarisation, principally between black and white, in the twilight of apartheid and before the first democratic elections. The book adds another dimension to the interpretation of class dynamics in the study of apartheid South Africa. In contrast to other studies that have concentrated on the working class, and on very restricted political and economic elites – which gives an incomplete picture of class dynamics – this book considers the impact of the middle classes in shaping the history of apartheid South Africa.
Author: John M. Phelan
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Les Switzer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-04-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521108553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first full-length study of the protest-cum-resistance press and its role in the struggle for a democratic South Africa between the 1880s and 1960s. South Africa's alternative press played a crucial, but still largely undocumented, role in the making of modern South Africa. Projecting the point of view of intermediary social groups, who saw themselves as a modernising, upwardly mobile non-ethnic force in the struggle to create a black middle-class culture in South Africa, these presses mirrored political realities that differed substantially from those projected by South Africa's established commercial press, which was owned and controlled by whites, and concerned almost exclusively with the political, economic and social life of the white population. An important venue for an emerging black literary tradition, these alternative presses also constitute a unique political and social archive.
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 1332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jesús F. de la Teja
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2016-03-09
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0806154586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost histories of Civil War Texas—some starring the fabled Hood’s Brigade, Terry’s Texas Rangers, or one or another military figure—depict the Lone Star State as having joined the Confederacy as a matter of course and as having later emerged from the war relatively unscathed. Yet as the contributors to this volume amply demonstrate, the often neglected stories of Texas Unionists and dissenters paint a far more complicated picture. Ranging in time from the late 1850s to the end of Reconstruction, Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance restores a missing layer of complexity to the history of Civil War Texas. The authors—all noted scholars of Texas and Civil War history—show that slaves, freedmen and freedwomen, Tejanos, German immigrants, and white women all took part in the struggle, even though some never found themselves on a battlefield. Their stories depict the Civil War as a conflict not only between North and South but also between neighbors, friends, and family members. By framing their stories in the analytical context of the “long Civil War,” Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance reveals how friends and neighbors became enemies and how the resulting violence, often at the hands of secessionists, crossed racial and ethnic lines. The chapters also show how ex-Confederates and their descendants, as well as former slaves, sought to give historical meaning to their experiences and find their place as citizens of the newly re-formed nation. Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenth—the nationally celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was announced in Texas—Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both the Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh narrative, one including people on the margins of history and dispelling the myth of a monolithically Confederate Texas.
Author: P. M. Kareithi
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntold Stories is an attempt by African media scholars to fill the void created by the dearth of research and publications on emerging areas of African journalism. The book captures major developments in economics and business journalism in Africa and provides a framework for research in this field. Each article is accompanied by responses from practicing journalists across the continent, which focus the more philosophical discussions on very functional issues.
