Protest and Affirmation: Composite Texts in the Crisis.
- Resource Type
- Literary Criticism
- Authors
- Carroll, Anne
- Source
- American Literature. Mar2004, Vol. 76 Issue 1, p89-116. 28p.
- Subject
- *SOCIAL movements in literature
*RACISM in literature
*ETHNOCENTRISM in literature
*AMERICAN literature
- Language
- ISSN
- 0002-9831
Examines two most prominent topics covered by the monthly publication “Crisis,” published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Role of editor W. E. B. DuBois as editor of the publication and director of publicity/research of the NAACP, in the development of “Crisis”; Feature of dynamic conjunctions of written and visual texts in the publication; Attribution of protest and affirmation as essential goals of the publication and of the NAACP; Use of photographs and visual illustrations to propagate protest and affirmation with “Crisis” as the medium; Techniques and methodologies employed by the publication to provide a record of racist acts.