African-American book publishers in the United States, 1960-1980
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 135 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5083-2861-0
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! While African-American book publishers have been active in the United States since the second decade of the 19th century, the 1960s and 1970s saw a proliferation of publishing activity, with the establishment of many new publishing houses and an increase in the number of titles published. African-American commercial book publishers released a total of 154 titles in the period 1970-74, a dramatic rise from the previous high of twenty-one titles published during the five-year spans of 1935-39 and 1940-2000. Institutional and religious publishers also increased their title output, rising from fifty-one titles in the years 1960-64 to 240 titles in 1970-74 (Joyce, 1983, 102). Concomitantly, there was a widening in the scope of publishing objectives on the part of African-American book publishers, who began to release titles which not only advanced their particular ideologies but dealt with topics unrelated to Black Americana or Africana. Such...