Introduction / Todd Vogel -- Circulating the nation : David Walker, the Missouri Compromise, and the rise of the black press / Robert S. Levine -- The new face of black labor / Todd Vogel -- Frederick Douglass's "colored newspaper" : identity politics in black and white / Robert Fanuzzi -- "We hold these truths to be self-evident" : the rhetoric of Frederick Douglass's jounalism / Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Carla L. Peterson -- Black separatism in the periodical writings of Mrs. A.E. (Amelia) Johnson / Wendy Wagner.

Poetics of memory and marginality : images of the Native American in African-American newspapers, 1870-1900 and 1970-1990 / Hannah Gourgey -- Our(?) country : mapping "these 'colored' United States" in The Messenger / Adam McKible -- "Bombed in Spain" : Langston Hughes, the black press, and the Spanish Civil War / Michael Thurston -- "Kin in some way" : The Chicago Defender reads the Japanese internment, 1942-1945 / C.K. Doreski -- On sale at your favorite newsstand : Negro Digest/Black World and the 1960s / James C. Hall.

"Photographs taken in everyday life" : Ebony's photojournalistic discourse / Maren Stange -- Black Panther newspaper : a militant voice, a salient vision / Rodger Streitmatter -- The black press in the age of digital reproduction : two exemplars / Anna Everett.