The Dissident Press: Alternative Journalism in American History

by Lauren Kessler

Book Overview

Kessler challenges the idea that the worlds of media and journalism have ever conformed to a ′free marketplace′ image. This present volume investigates a handful of the many fringe groups who, denied access to the mainstream, started marketplaces of their own. Journalistic efforts in six groups are explored: Black Americans; utopians and communitarians; feminists; non-English speaking immigrants; populists, anarchists, socialists, communists;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803920873
• ISBN13: 9780803920873
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"