Chronicles of a two-front war [[electronic resource] ] : civil rights and Vietnam in the African American press / / Lawrence Allen Eldridge

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790021603321
• Autore: Eldridge Lawrence Allen <1937->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbia [Mo.] ; ; London, : University of Missouri Press, c2011
• ISBN: 0-8262-7259-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.9
• Soggetti: African American press - History - 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Press coverage - United States; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - African Americans; African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century; Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Public opinion; United States Armed Forces African Americans; United States Race relations History 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Bringing the news home -- Vietnam and the great society : the two-front war -- Fueling the anger : the draft and black casualties -- African American opposition to the war in Vietnam -- Martin Luther King Jr. and the globalization of black protest -- "We're with you, chief" : the black press and LBJ -- The black press and Vietnam in the Nixon years -- Race relations in an integrated military -- The black press and the Vietnam War.
• Sommario/riassunto: During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal rights at home, and because the importance of the war overshadowed the civil rights movement in the minds of politicians and the public, it seemed that further progress might never come. For many African Americans, the bloodshed, loss, and disappointment of war became just another chapter in the history of the civil rights movement. Lawrence Allen Eldridge explores this ; two-front war, showing how the African American press grappled with the Vietnam War and its impact on the struggle for civil rights. This book is the first to examine coverage of the Vietnam War by black news publications, from the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964 to the final withdrawal of American ground forces in the spring of 1973 and the fall of Saigon in the spring of 1975. Eldridge reveals how the black press not only reported the war but also weighed its significance in the context of the civil rights movement. In analyzing seventeen African American newspapers, the author examines not only the role of reporters during the war, but also those of editors, commentators, and cartoonists. Especially enlightening is the research drawn from extensive oral histories by prominent journalist Ethel Payne, the first African American woman to receive the title of war correspondent. She described a widespread practice in black papers of reworking material from major white papers without providing proper credit, as the demand for news swamped the small budgets and limited staffs of African American papers. The author analyzes both the strengths of the black print media and the weaknesses in their coverage. He augmented this study with a rich array of primary sources--including interviews with black journalists and editors, oral history collections, the personal papers of key figures in the black press, and government documents, including those from the presidential libraries of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford--to trace the ups and downs of U.S. domestic and wartime policy especially as it related to the impact of the war on civil rights. The black press ultimately viewed the Vietnam War through the lens of African American experience, blaming the war for crippling LBJ's Great Society and the War on Poverty. Despite its waning hopes for an improved life, the black press soldiered on.

Doing the best I can [[electronic resource] ] : fatherhood in the inner city / / Kathryn Edin andTimothy J. Nelson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786228703321
• Autore: Edin Kathryn <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-520-95513-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): NelsonTimothy Jon
• Disciplina: 362.82/940973
• Soggetti: Fatherhood - United States; Poor children - United States; Single fathers - United States; Unmarried fathers - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- ONE. One Thing Leads to Another -- TWO. Thank You, Jesus -- THREE. The Stupid Shit -- FOUR. Ward Cleaver -- FIVE. Sesame Street Mornings -- SIX. Fight or Flight -- SEVEN. Try, Try Again -- EIGHT. The New Package Deal -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as "deadbeat dads." Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly-without planning. The authors chronicle the high hopes for forging lasting family bonds that pregnancy inspires, and pinpoint the fatal flaws that often lead to the relationship's demise. They offer keen insight into a radical redefinition of family life where the father-child bond is central and parental ties are peripheral. Drawing on years of fieldwork, Doing the Best I Can shows how mammoth economic and cultural changes have transformed the meaning of fatherhood among the urban poor. Intimate interviews with more than 100 fathers make real the significant obstacles faced by low-income men at every step in the familial process: from the ; difficulties of romantic relationships, to decision-making dilemmas at conception, to the often celebratory moment of birth, and finally to the hardships that accompany the early years of the child's life, and beyond.