King Al : how Sharpton took the throne /
"Through the 1980s, the mainstream press portrayed Reverend Al Sharpton as a buffoon, a fake minister, a hustler, an opportunist, a demagogue, a race traitor, and an anti-Semite. Today, Sharpton occupies a throne that would have shocked the white newspaper reporters who covered him forty years...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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New York :
Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press
2021.
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| الطبعة: | First edition. |
| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1trhsdt |
جدول المحتويات:
- Cover
- King Al
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1 Reverend Al and Me
- 2 Les Payne Sounds the "Death Knell" on the Tawana Brawley Story
- 3 The Early '80s: Sharpton Enters the Realm Where White Newspapers Ruled
- 4 Black Women and the Embedded Racism of the Realm
- 5 Rev. Al, Wayne Barrett, and Old Black Brooklyn
- 6 Enter James Brown and Don King
- 7 Roots of a Preacher's Strength
- 8 "I Know Jews from Italians"
- 9 The '90s: Climbing the Ladder in Politics
- 10 A New Day, a New Journalism, a King Emerges
- 11 Confessions of a Hack (i.e., Old- time Tabloid Reporter)
- Acknowledgments
- Tools That Made the Book
- Index