Jane Rhodes
Jane Rhodes is Professor and Head of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Rhodes earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is trained as a mass media historian with specialization in African American history and culture. Rhodes is the author of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century (Indiana, 1998) and Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon (Illinois, 2017, 2nd. Ed.) Her book in progress is Rebel Media: Adventures in the History of the Black Public Sphere.
Journals presented by Jane Rhodes
The Messenger, The Crusader and The Radical Black Imagination in the Early 20th Century This paper considers two periodicals published by black radical activists in the United States during the “New Negro” era of the early 20th century. Amid the outbreak of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the stirring of anti-colonial movements in […]