Forming the Public

Frank Durham is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Thomas Oates is an associate professor in the department of American Studies and an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and at the University of Iowa. His books include Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL.

Acknowledgments

Introduction



Creating an American Public Interest
Writing against Slavery: The Abolitionist Press
The Long Struggle for Women’s Suffrage
The Haymarket Riot and the Rights of Labor
Reconstruction, Lynching, and Ida B. Wells’s Crusade for Justice
Dreams and Nightmares of Empire
La Raza and the Rangers: Competing Narratives of Citizenship and Policing on the Borderlands
What Is Democracy? Lippmann, Bernays, and Public Opinion
What Is “Americanism”? The Second Red Scare
Civil Rights and the Spectacle of Southern Racism
The Black Panthers and the Young Lords: Anti-imperialist and Anti-capitalist Journalism
The American Indian Movement and Indigenous Peoples’ Media Strategies

Conclusion: The Ongoing Struggle to Define the Public

Notes

Index