Mediating America – Black and Irish Press and the Struggle for Citizenship, 187…

Mediating AmericaBlack and Irish Press and the Struggle for Citizenship, 1870-1914\nAuthor(s): Brian Shott\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Temple University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781439915578, 978-1439915578\nSynopsis\nUntil recently, print media was the dominant force in American culture. The power of the paper was especially true in minority communities. African Americans and European immigrants vigorously embraced the print newsweekly as a forum to move public opinion, cohere group identity, and establish American belonging.\n\nMediating America explores the life and work of T. Thomas Fortune and J. Samuel Stemons as well as Rev. Peter C. Yorke and Patrick Ford-respectively two African American and two Irish American editor/activists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Historian Brian Shott shows how each of these race men (the parlance of the time) understood and advocated for his groups interests through their.