{"product_id":"african-american-foreign-correspondents-a-history-paperback-softback-9780807188392","title":"African American Foreign Correspondents; A History (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807188392","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfrican American Foreign Correspondents\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJinx Coleman Broussard (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807188392\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e1.6 x 22.9 x 15.2 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Based on extensive research in personal and media archives, the book spotlights the figure of the foreign correspondent, which is largely missing from canonical histories of the African American press. . . . Most of the characters the book brings to life 'wrote to reposition the race' (p. 208)—and Broussard also repositions a long-lost history that speaks not only to students of foreign news but to all those interested in the enduring debates on race relations and the purposes of journalism.\" —\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAfrican American Foreign Correspondents \u003c\/i\u003eis an important contribution to the growing body of African American journalism and a must-read for students of the history of American foreign reporting.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e —\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The author has surely made a contribution that will be cited often in an expanding group of histories of the black press. Broussard's exploration of the black press and its reporting on global issues is particularly important in our current age of corporate media consolidation.\" —Justin C. Williams (H-Diplo)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In an engaging history of the ways in which blacks have reported on the world since the 1840s, \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Foreign Correspondents: A History \u003c\/i\u003emakes an important contribution to journalism history. . . . The book is sufficiently accessible to be read by the public and to be used in undergraduate classes. And it should be.\" —\u003ci\u003eJournalism History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough African Americans have served as foreign reporters for almost two centuries, their work remains virtually unstudied. In this seminal volume, Jinx Coleman Broussard traces the history of black participation in international newsgathering. Beginning in the mid-1800s with Frederick Douglass and Mary Ann Shadd Cary—the first black woman to edit a North American newspaper—African American Foreign Correspondents highlights the remarkable individuals and publications that brought an often-overlooked black perspective to world reporting. Broussard focuses on correspondents from 1840 to modern day, including reporters such as William Worthy Jr., who helped transform the role of modern foreign correspondence by gaining the right for journalists to report from anywhere in the world unimpeded; Leon Dash, a professor of journalism and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who reported from Africa for the Washington Post in the 1970s and 1980s; and Howard French, a professor in Columbia University's journalism school and a globetrotting foreign correspondent. \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tAfrican American Foreign Correspondents provides insight into how and why African Americans reported the experiences of blacks worldwide. In many ways, black correspondents upheld a tradition of filing objective stories on world events, yet some African American journalists in the mainstream media, like their predecessors in the black press, had a different mission and perspective. They adhered primarily to a civil rights agenda, grounded in advocacy, protest, and pride. Accordingly, some of these correspondents—not all of them professional journalists—worked to spur social reform in the United States and force policy changes that would eliminate oppression globally. Giving visibility and voice to the marginalized, correspondents championed an image of people of color that combatted the negative and racially construed stereotypes common in the American media. \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tBy examining how and why blacks reported information and perspectives from abroad, African American Foreign Correspondents contributes to a broader conversation about navigating racial, societal, and global problems, some of which we continue to contend with today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551799898392,"sku":"9780807188392","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/african-american-foreign-correspondents-a-history-paperback-softback-9780807188392","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}