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Hussman Media Justice Speaker Series: Kathy Roberts Forde

Kathy Roberts Forde: The White Press Helped Build White Supremacy in the New South: Why the journalism industry and journalism higher education must reckon with this history

 

Based on the forthcoming book co-edited with Sid Bedingfield: Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America (University of Illinois Press, November 2021)

Kathy Roberts Forde (2005 doctoral alum), professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is co-editor of Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America, out next month. It is the first extended work exploring the active role white newspaper publishers and editors played in building and sustaining white supremacist political economies and social orders in the New South from 1875-1920—and the resistance of the Black press. Kathy is also co-editor of the Journalism & Democracy book series at UMass Press. Her work on press history has received the Frank Luther Mott-KTA Book Award, the AEJMC History Division Book Award, the Covert Award, and the James W. Carey Media Research Award. Her dissertation at UNC received the AEJMC Nafziger-White Dissertation Award.