African American Women in the News: Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism Straus and Giroux (Byr) Only wanting to be with

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African American Women in the News: Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism Straus and Giroux (Byr) Only wanting to be withAfrican American Women in the News offers the first in depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates the complex and often contradictory images of African American women in news media through detailed studies of national and local news, the mainstream and