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Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America Paperback – Illustrated, 31 Jan. 2020

by E. James West (Author)

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From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating millions of African Americans about their past. Guided by the pen of Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and in-house historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II. Its content helped push representations of the African American past from the margins to the center of the nation’s cultural and political imagination. E. James West's fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony’s political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. He also uncovers a paradox. Though Ebony provided Bennett with space to promote a militant reading of black history and protest, the magazine’s status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both past and present. Mixing biography, cultural history, and popular memory, West restores Ebony and Bennett to their rightful place in African American intellectual, commercial, and political history.

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208 pages
Language

English
Publisher

University of Illinois Press
Publication date

31 Jan. 2020
Dimensions

15.24 x 1.78 x 22.86 cm
ISBN-10

0252084985
ISBN-13

978-0252084980
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press; Illustrated edition (31 Jan. 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 208 pages
ISBN-10 : 0252084985
ISBN-13 : 978-0252084980
Dimensions : 15.24 x 1.78 x 22.86 cm

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- 4,139 in Ethnography & Ethnology

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"This concise, illuminating book serves as a useful marker for a full-fledged (and long overdue) critical history of Ebony, a major American magazine, in all its glories and travails." --PopMatters

"A fantastic, deeply-contextualized new book about Ebony and Bennett." --IMixWhatILike

"E. James West's book is the first major examination of Ebony as a forum for black historical discourse and the magazine's long-time executive editor Lerone Bennett Jr.'s multifaceted thought, work, and scholarship as a leading popular historian of the black past and vital contributor to the post-war black history movement. A well-researched and accessible study situated within the growing field of black intellectual history, Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. is a major contribution to our understanding of what West aptly calls 'popular black history.'"--Pero G. Dagbovie, author of Revisiting the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American history in the Twenty-First Century

"West expertly chronicles how Ebony magazine and its executive editor Lerone Bennett Jr. shaped cultural perception of African-American history. . . . This astute history shines a welcome light on a pioneering journalist. " --Publishers Weekly

About the Author

E. James West is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American History at Northumbria University.

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A key magazine and its editor

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2020

A detailed and meticulously researched account of Ebony magazine, launched in 1945, and its role in informing, educating and representing the African-American community. The magazine had a long-lasting impact on black culture, politics and history and played a key role in community development under the charismatic and influential editorship of Lerone Bennett Jr. I learnt a great deal from this academic but overall accessible book. I found it a bit dry at times, for sure, but essentially it’s clearly written and tackles an important subject with clarity and insight. Essential reading for anyone interested in black history.

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A good overview

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2020

This book was given to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.This book provides an interesting overview of the development of a magazine. In addition, this work provides a brilliant analysis of the development and teaching of Black History. It is a worthwhile read. I highly recommend this book.