List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Untangling Discourses of Representation in Black Press Celebrity Reporting
2. Early Crossover Black Celebrities and the Onus of Collective Representation
3. Black Celebrities Uplift the Race
4. The Mythologizing of Black Celebrities
5. The Marginalization of Black Female Celebrities as Race Representatives
6. National Heroes, Foreign Villains, and Unhyphenated Americans
7. Journalistic Commemoration and the Construction of a “Felt” Past
8. The Politics of Black Press Celebrity Journalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index