id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16084 Belcher, Emily M. Calvin L. Hall. African American Journalists: Autobiography as Memoir and Manifesto. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009. 117p. alk. paper, $35 paper (ISBN 9780810869301). LC2009-006052. 2010-05-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1839 65 40 Mainstream newsrooms, however, like the rest of America society, remained largely segregated well into the mid-twen- tieth century and consequently restricted the work of African American journalists solely to black-owned presses. Through the application of standpoint theory, Hall explores how these autobiographical memoirs fit within the framework and tradition of African American autobiog- raphy and why each narrative possesses within it the distinctiveness of manifesto by critiquing the social, psychological, economic, and political dynamics operat- ing within their personal and professional lives as African American journalists. cache/crl-16084.pdf txt/crl-16084.txt