Journalism History, Fall 2011
In contrast to the established literature, in which colonizationism is presented as antithetical to a civics commitment, John Brown Russwurm justified his decision to emigrate to Liberia precisely on the basis of a desire for civil liberties and citizenship.
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Mass Comm Review, 1989
Special Issue: Freedom and Equity
Private media ownership does not ensure freedom of the press because non-governmental actors often act as censors. In addition, a shift is required away from measuring "freedom" and toward measuring restrictions.
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Emergence of the Fourth Estate, 1640-1789
Journalism & Mass Comm Monographs
Spring 2011
This study combines political economy and cultural studies to uncover the forces driving the development of press freedom in early modern England, British North America and France.
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Manifest Ruptures and Latent Continuities
Communication Theory, February 1996
Parsonian functionalism was rightly criticized for its political conservatism, problems of logic and a tendency to impose psychological and sociological analyses on specifically cultural material. An overlooked alternative was the contextual, actionist Mertonian tradition, which took root in the communications context.
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The Maine Years of John Brown Russwurm
Maine History, Vol. 47, No. 2 (July 2013)
John Brown Russwurm was born in Jamaica to a white American father and a black mother. He moved to North America as a young man, teaching in several black schools and earning a college degree from Bowdoin College. In light of his transnational background, his ultimate relocation to Africa was a logical extension of his life's trajectory.
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Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Summer 1997
An outbreak of social tensions in Liberia in 1840 did not lead to restrictions on the opposition Africa's Luminary newspaper, as predicted by the press-freedom theory of historian John D. Stevens.
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Liberian Studies Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1 (1998)
It is argued that the 1847 Constitution drew upon a variety of U. S. constitutions, as was common practice. Textual comparisons show the document was written by local delegates to the constitution assembly, not by Harvard professor Simon Greenleaf, as commonly claimed.
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Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs
December 1996
This study is a critique of modernization theory. It shows that the emergence of institutional arrangements normally associated with capitalism and industrialization are not necessarily accompanied by a political culture supportive of civil liberties.
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A Southern Ideology in Early Liberia
The Journal of Negro History, Winter 2001
This study massaged in the writings of those African Americans who emigrated to Liberia evidence of republicanism, an important aspect of American political thinking in the antebellum South, which has received little attention from scholars of Black intellectual history. Further, it showed that a sense of Black solidarity pervaded their writings.
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Liberian Studies Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1988)
This study shows that the pre-Liberian economic landscape supported several antipodean groupings, defined by their differential access to resources, such the “stranger” and the “owner of the land,” as well as free and servile persons.
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West Indians and Liberian Journalism
Ecquid Novi, Vo. 33, No. 2 (2012)
By examining behaviors and artifacts from 1830 to 1970, this study aimed to better distinguish idiosyncratic patterns from those that are culturally determined.
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An Investigation into the Death of a Dissident Newspaper
Journal of Ethnic Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1
With internal stability and unity, the newspaper of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association might have survived the Great Depression. But its stability was undermined by the political disunity that plagued the paper's editorial staff. In the Fall of 1933, like an old soldier, the Negro World faded away.
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Black Nationalism and Hilary Teage of the Liberia Herald
American Journalism, Summer 1999
Three persistent and pervasive themes in the writings of Hilary Teage were black nationalism, aesthetic romanticism and liberal republicanism, with its emphasis on empirical analysis and limited government.
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Liberia-Forum, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1986)
Using a combination of natural endowment, cultural habits and trade patterns, this paper divides pre-Liberia into three economic zones.It documents the existence of commodity production, long-distance trade and local currencies. Some local products — soaps and iron — were noted to be superior to those manufactured in Europe
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