Buried treasure: The community newspaper as an empowerment strategy for African American high school students
1995; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 6; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/10646179509361685
ISSN1096-4649
Autores Tópico(s)Early Childhood Education and Development
ResumoThe student press can be a potent force for teaching African American adolescents about the power of communication and its role in building community. The “buried treasure” of newsmaking—the social relations involved in the gathering, construction and presention of news—can teach young people important sociopolitical lessons about recognizing their own shared interests and working together as a community. This article describes the experiences of young African Americans who took part in a research project conducted by the author at an inner‐city high school in the mid‐Atlantic United States. Over a period of 19 months, some 97 high school students wrote and published a youth newspaper focusing on their own community. The article concludes that newsmaking, though not a remedy for the structural constraints of poverty, racism, or other social inequities, is a strategy that can be used successfully by young African Americans to connect with one another and thereby to take more self‐directing roles in their lives.
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