Congratulations to Dr. Jinx
Broussard, a member of the Pontchartrain Chapter of the Links, Incorporated, on
the release of her newest book, "African American Foreign
Correspondents." Published in June, 2013 by LSU Press, the book highlights
the remarkable individuals that brought an often-overlooked black perspective
to world reporting. Her book is the
first to be published on this topic.
Though African Americans have
served as foreign reporters for almost two centuries, their work remains
virtually unstudied. In this seminal volume, Jinx Coleman Broussard traces the
history of black participation in international newsgathering. Beginning in the
mid-1800s with Frederick Douglass and Mary Ann Shadd Cary—the first black woman
to edit a North American newspaper—African American Foreign Correspondents
provides insight into how and why African Americans reported the experiences of
blacks worldwide
By examining how and why blacks
reported information and perspectives from abroad, African American Foreign
Correspondents contributes to a broader conversation about navigating racial,
societal, and global problems, many of which we continue to contend with today.
For more about the book, visit: http://lsupress.org/books/detail/african-american-foreign-correspondents/
Jinx Coleman Broussard teaches media history and
public relations in the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State
University. She conducts research on the black press and is the author of
Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists.
