Pleasure in the News Laurie A. Dinnebeil and social activism

and social activism

such as denial and avoidance

and the general reader

elusive even in simple things like the trickeries of light on a spider's web

and educational justice

Pleasure in the News Laurie A. Dinnebeil and social activismCritics often chastised the twentieth century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance arguing that African American newspapers fostered black sexual expression, agency, and identity. Gallon discusses how journalists and editors created black sexual publics that offered everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics that