Michael Strode’s Reviews > The Black Press: New Literary and Historical Essays > Status Update
Michael Strode
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Each time I feel compelled to cast the text aside as a loquacious discourse of journalistic hodgepodge, I find myself struck by some particular insight discovered as the article draws to its necessary and eventual conclusion. There is a balance of informed authorship, eloquence and cohesiveness which the text fails to achieve, but still much to be learned about how a rigorous press shapes each successive era.
— Mar 12, 2013 04:05PM
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Michael Strode
is on page 123 of 276
Historical research at this level of specificity is frequently given to navel gazing, but the text was revived for me with the writings on Amelia Johnson and Black separatism which rendered new insights into how the subject was broached in the Black church post Emancipation. There was also a necessary discussion on attaining American citizenship through confrontational discourse between marginalized populations.
— Jun 20, 2012 04:00AM
Michael Strode
is on page 71 of 276
My primary criticism of this text is that it is so rigidly academic as to be nearly unreadable by the general public. It is a textbook case for fusing historical inquiry with novel writing technique a la Toni Morrison or Howard Zinn in order that you might create a body of literature that can remain both an enjoyable and enriching reading experience rather than being a footnote to a footnote in an academic journal.
— May 16, 2012 07:55AM
