Title A transplanted Chicago : race, place and the press in Iowa City / Robert E. Gutsche, Jr.

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Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Summary	"This book looks at the movement of urban Blacks into small-city America through the experience of Iowa City, a town desperately trying to redefine itself. Examines how the region and its ever-diversifying small cities continue to struggle with deciding who gets to define community identity and who makes decisions on housing, employment and education"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: Welcome to the rural ghetto : "Southeast Side" as "Little Chicago" -- How news explains everyday life -- Place and its purpose -- Building the ghetto : reading news as cultural mortar -- News of "The Inner City" : racializing the Southeast Side -- What's the Southeast Side? : mental mapping to construct place -- Whose Southeast Side? : mapping place -- The subtle power of the press : place and its ideological function -- School news : press constructions of "schools-as-place" -- Conclusion: On the role of news, place and being human -- Epilogue: Beyond the Southeast Side : news "place-making" elsewhere.
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Subject	African Americans -- Iowa -- Iowa City -- History.
	African Americans.
	Iowa -- Iowa City.
	History.
	African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
	Illinois -- Chicago.
	Migration, Internal -- United States -- History.
	Migration, Internal.
	United States.
	Chicago (Ill.) -- Emigration and immigration.
	Iowa City (Iowa) -- Emigration and immigration.
	African Americans -- Press coverage -- Iowa -- Iowa City -- History.
	Journalism -- Social aspects -- Iowa -- Iowa City -- History.
	African American neighborhoods -- Iowa -- Iowa City -- History.
	African Americans -- Press coverage.
	Community life -- Iowa -- Iowa City -- History.
	Journalism -- Social aspects.
	Iowa City (Iowa) -- Race relations.
	African American neighborhoods.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	Community life.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	Emigration and immigration.
	Race relations.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Gutsche, Robert E., 1980- Transplanted Chicago 9780786473670 (DLC) 2014015888 (OCoLC)869265490
ISBN	9781476616285 (electronic book)
	1476616280 (electronic book)
	9780786473670
	0786473673

Title A transplanted Chicago : race, place and the press in Iowa City / Robert E. Gutsche, Jr.

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