Bearing Witness While Black
AFRICAN AMERICANS, SMARTPHONES AND THE NEW PROTEST #JOURNALISM
WINNER
Book of the Year Award
American Sociological Association
Communication + Information Tech Division
Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Book in the Ecology of Culture
Media Ecology Association
Tankard Book of the Year Award
Association for Education in
Journalism & Mass Communication
Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award International Communication Association
Kappa Tau Alpha/Frank Luther Mott
Book of the Year Award
Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication
Outstanding Book of the Year
National Association of Black Journalists
Richardson examines the forms of Black witnessing that animate the Black Lives Matter movement, while situating them within the much longer arc of witnessing practices that have helped shape historic struggles for Black liberation.
— boom california
Impeccably researched and engagingly written, Bearing Witness While Black raises the bar for studying how ordinary people work for social justice.
— Dr. Patricia Hill Collins
[V]ivid, moving, analytical, and personal at the same time as it charts how “today’s Black witnesses and their ancestors also have created an unbroken chain of brave seers that has spanned more than 200 years.
— COMMUNICATION THEORY
Richardson offers a compelling inquiry into how activism and journalism work together for Black communities intent upon articulating the inequities of racial and civil discrimination.
— Dr. Andre Brock
Allissa V. Richardson has written a love letter to the Black Press, the people who invent a way to account for Black life critically, even as civil society renders it subject to erasure.