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WILLIAMS, MEGAN E. "“Meet the Real Lena Horne”: Representations of Lena Horne in Ebony Magazine, 1945–1949." Journal of American Studies 43, no. 1 (April 2009): 117–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875809006094.

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Following World War II, Ebony's creator and editor, John H. Johnson, sought to create a popular black magazine in the vein of Life and Look that would reflect the accomplishments and joys, “the happier side,” of African American life.1 Throughout the first four years of its publication, Lena Horne appeared on the magazine's cover three times – the only woman to do so during this period. In this paper, I argue that the fledgling Ebony magazine drew on Lena Horne's wartime status as a beautiful black icon and represented her as a symbol of its ideological project, broadly, and as the Ebony image of postwar black womanhood, specifically. The magazine's representation of Lena Horne acts as a useful trope for understanding how Ebony imaged postwar black femininity in terms of motherhood, work, and civil rights activism; additionally, Ebony's representation of Horne and Ebony readers' letters to the editor reveal central issues of respectability, pinup photography, colorism, hair care, and interracial relationships as they were debated within the magazine's pages.Behind the lavish make-up, gay tinsel and brilliant glitter of American's most popular Negro entertainer, Lena Horne is a wonderfully human, somewhat lonesome, amazingly-honest, militant-minded personality who is relatively unknown to a vast audience of millions of movie, radio, and night club fans.2

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Wheeler, Belinda. "Gwendolyn Bennett's “The Ebony Flute”." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 128, no. 3 (May 2013): 744–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2013.128.3.744.

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IntroductionGwendolyn Bennett (1902-81) is often mentioned in books that discuss the harlem renaissance, and some of her poems Occasionally appear in poetry anthologies; but much of her career has been overlooked. Along with many of her friends, including Jessie Redmond Fauset, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen, Bennett was featured at the National Urban League's Civic Club Dinner in March 1924, an event that would later be “widely hailed as a ‘coming out party’ for young black artists, writers, and intellectuals whose work would come to define the Harlem Renaissance” (McHenry 383n100). In the next five years Bennett published over forty poems, short stories, and reviews in leading African American magazines and anthologies, such as Cullen's Caroling Dusk (1927) and William Stanley Braithwaite's Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1927; she created magazine cover art that adorned two leading African American periodicals, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races and the National Urban League's Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life; she worked as an editor or assistant editor of several magazines, including Opportunity, Black Opals, and Fire!; and she wrote a renowned literary column, “The Ebony Flute.” Many scholars, such as Cary Wintz, Abby Arthur Johnson and Ronald Maberry Johnson, and Elizabeth McHenry, recognized the importance of Bennett's column to the Harlem Renaissance in their respective studies, but their emphasis on a larger Harlem Renaissance discussion did not afford a detailed examination of her column.

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Leslie, Michael. "Slow Fade to?: Advertising in Ebony Magazine, 1957–1989." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 72, no. 2 (June 1995): 426–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909507200214.

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This research investigated the changing image of blacks in advertisements in Ebony magazine from late 1950 to late 1980. Content analysis of paired samples from three decades revealed significant differences in the mix of products advertised as well as in the aesthetic qualities of models used in the ads. This research also found that while the Black Revolt of the 1960s “blackened” Ebony's ads, the fair-skinned, Eurocentric model had begun to reassert itself as the somatic norm for Ebony advertising by the late 1980s.

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Cross, Theodore. "Ebony Magazine: Sometimes The Bell Curve's Best Friend." Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, no. 10 (1995): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2962770.

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Thompson-Brenner, Heather, Christina L. Boisseau, and Michelle S. St. Paul. "Representation of ideal figure size in Ebony magazine: A content analysis." Body Image 8, no. 4 (September 2011): 373–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2011.05.005.

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Tripp, Bernell E. "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America." American Journalism 37, no. 4 (October 1, 2020): 546–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2020.1830630.

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Johnson, Dianne. "Ebony Jr! The Rise, Fall, and Return of a Black Children’s Magazine (review)." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 34, no. 2 (2009): 196–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.0.1904.

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Bramlett-Solomon, Sharon, and Ganga Subramanian. "Nowhere Near Picture Perfect: Images of the Elderly in Life and Ebony Magazine Ads, 1990–1997." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 76, no. 3 (September 1999): 565–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909907600311.

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Nelsen, R. Arvid. "Race and Computing: The Problem of Sources, the Potential of Prosopography, and the Lesson of Ebony Magazine." IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 39, no. 1 (2017): 29–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ahc.2017.0004.

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Nelsen, R. Arvid. "Race and Computing: The Problem of Sources, the Potential of Prosopography, and the Lesson of Ebony Magazine." IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 39, no. 1 (January 2017): 29–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mahc.2016.11.

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Bryant, Malika S. "Johnson Publishing Company’s Tan Confessions and Ebony: Reader Response through the Lens of Social Comparison Theory." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618997653408659.

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West, Edmund. "Ebony Magazine, Lerone Bennett, Jr., and the making and selling of modern black history, 1958-1987." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/ebony-magazine-lerone-bennett-jr-and-the-making-and-selling-of-modern-black-history-19581987(398d9db5-507b-44d3-8952-216fd8e03b10).html.

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This thesis is concerned with the ways in which Ebony magazine sought to recover, popularise and utilise black history between the late 1950s and the late 1980s. The dominant scholarly approach to Ebony has focused on the magazine's bourgeois values and visual aesthetics, and has ignored its importance as a creator and disseminator of black history. By contrast, I highlight the multiple ways in which black history became central to Ebony's content from the late 1950s onwards. Far from viewing Ebony as peripheral to or simply reflective of popular debates into the black past, I place the magazine at the heart of contestations between the corporate, philosophical and political uses of black history during the second half of the twentieth century. In Ebony, this shift was quarterbacked by Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine's senior editor and in-house historian. Bennett's emergence as a prominent black historian and intellectual, and his increased desire to present history 'from a black perspective', was paralleled by Ebony's broader move from a more politicised to a more market-driven moment. Rooted in my unique position as the first scholar to look at Bennett's unprocessed papers at Chicago State University, and one of the first researchers to examine Bennett's collections at Emory University, this thesis sheds new light on the work of Bennett, on Ebony's significance as a 'history book' for millions of readers, and on the magazine's place at the centre of post-war debates into the form and function of African-American history.

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Anderson, Edwards Jerrika M. "The Beauty Standard Trade-Off: How Ebony, Essence, and Jet Magazine Represent African American/Black Female Beauty in Advertising in 1968, 1988, and 2008." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/286.

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How do magazines that target the Black community represent Black/African American female beauty within a society that pushes a Eurocentric beauty ideal? Are these publications affected by the dominant ideal, do they resist the ideal with their own Afrocentric beauty standards, or do they find some type of compromise between the two? In this thesis, I propose that these publications present a compromise between Eurocentric and Afrocentric ideals but to the detriment of Black/African American women. To investigate my research questions, I conducted a content analysis of the advertisements in three periods of time, 1968, 1988, and 2008, in three lifestyle /news magazines that target the Black community: Jet, Essence, and Ebony. I looked at the beauty ideals represented in all three magazines by focusing on the hair type, skin color, and body shape and size of the Black/African American women portrayed. In addition I examined the historical context that supported the creation of these publications and these specific gendered and raced representations.Through a compromise between society’s dominant Eurocentric beauty ideal and an alternative Afrocentric ideal, these magazines participated in a trade-off, in which features and aesthetics of both communities were represented by Black women in advertisements. While the typical interpretation of this analysis might focus solely on the positive attributes of these representations, I argue that these representations are harmful to Black female readers because they circumscribe what constitutes Black female beauty while at the same time reinforcing negative ideas about physical attributes that are deemed “too Black” by the dominant ideals of a Eurocentric society.

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Mead, Peggy Christine. "Authentic West African and West African influenced apparel textiles of the 1960's and 1970's as depicted in Ebony, Life, Time and Mademoiselle magazines /." 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/9991.

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Books on the topic "Ebony Magazine"

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Ebony jr!: The rise, fall, and return of a Black children's magazine. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2008.

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Arnold, Jhana Ruth. An analysis of the success of Ebony magazine. London: LCP, 2003.

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Vann, Kimberly R. Black music in Ebony: An annotated guide to the articles on music in Ebony magazine, 1945-1985. Chicago: Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, 1990.

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E, Saunders Doris, ed. Special moments in African-American history, 1955-1996: The photographs of Moneta Sleet, Jr., Ebony magazine's Pulitzer Prize winner. Chicago: Johnson Pub. Co., 1998.

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West, E. James. Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043116.001.0001.

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This study reveals the previously hidden impact of Ebony magazine as a major producer and disseminator of popular black history during the second half of the twentieth century, stretching from its formation in 1945 to its role in the movement to establish a national holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1980s. Benefitting from unprecedented access to new archival materials at Chicago State and Emory University, it focuses on the impact of Lerone Bennett, Jr., the magazine’s in-house historian and senior editor. More broadly, West highlights the value placed upon Ebony’s role as a “history book” by its contributors and readers. Using Ebony as a window into the trajectory of the post-war “modern black history revival”, this study offers a bold reinterpretation of the magazine’s place within modern American cultural and intellectual history and highlights its role as a critical tool for black history empowerment and education on a local, national and international scale.

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Marsh, Carole. John Harold Johnson: Creator of Ebony Magazine. Gallopade International, 1998.

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Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr: Popular Black History in Postwar America. University of Illinois Press, 2020.

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West, E. James. Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr: Popular Black History in Postwar America. University of Illinois Press, 2020.

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Cooper, Brittney C. The Problems and Possibilities of the Negro Woman Intellectual. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040993.003.0006.

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This chapter returns to the question of what it means to be a Black woman intellectual by interrogating the claims in an article in Ebony Magazine in 1966 called “Problems of the Negro Woman Intellectual.” Given the ferment of racial crises in the 1960s, this chapter argues that much like the transitional period of the 1890s, the transition from Civil Rights to Black Power was marked by a tension over the roles that Black women would play, not only as political activists, but as intellectual leaders. Thus Harold Cruse’s Crisis of the Negro Intellectual erased a long and significant history of Black women’s intellectual labor in order to sustain his narrative of racial crisis. What really seems to be in crisis are the terms of Black masculinity. Cooper reads Toni Cade Bambara’s book of essays The Black Woman as a critical corrective to Cruse’s assertions because The Black Woman presses the case for Black women’s centrality as thought leaders and public intellectuals in racial justice struggles, and Bambara and her comrades approach the same political moment as an opportunity for creativity around the articulation of new modes of what she terms “Blackhood” rather than embracing the narrative of crisis. This chapter makes clear that the struggle to be known and to have the range of Black women’s experiences properly articulated in the public sphere is a recurring struggle for Black women thinkers. At the same time, these women engage in a range of creative practices to make Black women’s lives legible in public discourse.

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Special Moments in African-American History, 1955-1996: The Photographs of Moneta Sleet, Jr., Ebony Magazine's Pulitzer Prize Winner. Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ebony Magazine"

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West, E. James. "An Abundance of Outright Untruths." In Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr., 13–30. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043116.003.0002.

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This chapter situates the early development of Ebony within a longer history of black press engagement with black history and the evolution of the black history movement in the United States. It demonstrates that black history education was an important, if often overlooked feature of Ebony from its creation in 1945 and demonstrates how coalescing civil rights activism pushed the magazine towards a more substantive engagement with both black history and black activism.

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West, E. James. "Introduction." In Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr., 1–12. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043116.003.0001.

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In the June 1969 issue of Ebony, its editors used the popular “Backstage” feature to invite readers on a literary tour through the Chicago offices of parent company Johnson Publishing.¹ The magazine’s audience was introduced to the circulation team, whose state-of-the-art IBM computers printed mailing lists for close to one million monthly subscribers, as well as other departments housed at the company’s imposing headquarters on South Michigan Avenue....

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West, E. James. "Tell Us of Our Past." In Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr., 31–47. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043116.003.0003.

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This chapter focuses on the publication of Ebony’s first major “Negro History” series during the early 1960s, a feature which helped to formalise its role as an outlet for popular black history and signalled the emergence of Lerone Bennett, Jr. as a popular historian and public intellectual. The diverse ways in which Ebony’s audience and external critics engaged with the magazine’s series reveals the importance of Ebony’s role as a ‘history book’, but also how this role was contested by other black history outlets and organisations

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West, E. James. "White Problems and the Roots of Black Power." In Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr., 48–67. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043116.003.0004.

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This chapter documents how Bennett specifically, and Ebony more broadly, began to use black history as a lens through which to critique the gains and trajectory of the civil rights movement and the emergence of Black Power on the national stage. It focuses on the publication of Bennett’s “Black Power” series, which both preceded and overlapped with the popularisation of the Black Power slogan by activists such as Stokely Carmichael, and which aimed to analyse new patterns of black radical activist through a historical framework.

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West, E. James. "Learning Is an All-Black Thing." In Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr., 68–90. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043116.003.0005.

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This chapter situates Ebony’s evolving black history content within the broader struggle for black-centred education and the ‘Black Revolution’ on campus during the late 1960s and early 1970s. During this period, Ebony’s historical content presented a militant and, at times, heavily gendered interpretation of the African American past. On an individual level, Bennett’s developing relationship with organisations such as Northwestern University and the Institute of the Black World underscored the uniqueness of his role as Ebony’s in-house historian, and the complexity of his position as both a magazine editor and a black public intellectual.

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West, E. James. "We Can Seize the Opportunity." In Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr., 91–112. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043116.003.0006.

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This chapter charts Ebony’s initial response to the ‘mainstreaming’ of black history in American popular and political culture during the 1970s, focused around the magazine’s discussion of, and engagement with, the American Bicentennial in 1976. As a whole, Ebony’s coverage of the Bicentennial reflected a shift away from a more activist-oriented depiction of black history and an embrace of less political and more commemorative editorial perspective. Yet even as this shift occurred, Bennett pushed for a rejection of the Bicentennial as an ‘affront to truth and freedom.’

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West, E. James. "A Hero to Be Remembered." In Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr., 113–30. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043116.003.0007.

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This chapter explores how internal and external tensions influencing Ebony’s depiction of black history fed into the struggle to establish a national holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 1970s and 1980s. Against this backdrop, Bennett and other Ebony contributors struggled to negotiate the continued importance of the magazine’s black history content in a changing cultural and political climate. For some, the King Holiday represented an opportunity to reflect on the activist’s legacy as a ‘hero to be remembered.’ For others, it was a chance to reiterate the political application of the black past and its role in the ongoing struggle for black liberation.

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West, E. James. "Conclusion." In Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr., 131–36. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043116.003.0008.

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Ebony’s coverage of the King holiday movement during the mid-1980s overlapped with another significant historical milestone: its own fortieth anniversary. The magazine marked the occasion with a blockbuster special issue in November 1985 that ran to more than 250 pages. Its size and scope provided an emphatic reminder of ...

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"Front Matter." In Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr., i—vi. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvwh8dht.1.

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"A Hero to Be Remembered." In Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr., 113–30. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvwh8dht.10.

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Reports on the topic "Ebony Magazine"

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Williams, Ashney, Courtney Johnson, Archana Edmond, and Eulanda Sanders. What's Hair Got to Do with It?: An Analysis of Ebony Magazine Hair Advertisements from 2011 to 2015. Ames: Iowa State University, Digital Repository, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa_proceedings-180814-345.

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