Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print. Fielder, B. & Senchyne, J., editors University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 2019.
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The ongoing remediation of newspapers into digital surrogates is proving a remarkable mixed boon. More than ever, scholars enjoy online access to a dizzying volume of rare and hard-to-find newspapers. Where previous generations required the time and money to travel the country scrounging for files of newspapers, today we may be just a click or two away from websites where we can run keyword searches on hundreds, millions, or even billions of words. In the process, a variety of subfields of periodicals studies have sprung up, all eager to mine these enormous repositories for new materials and new ways to
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	address = {Madison, WI},
	title = {Against a {Sharp} {White} {Background}: {Infrastructures} of {African} {American} {Print}},
	isbn = {978-0-299-32150-5},
	shorttitle = {Parsing the {Special} {Characters} of {African} {American} {Print} {Culture}},
	url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvgs08p1.9},
	abstract = {The ongoing remediation of newspapers into digital surrogates is proving a remarkable mixed boon. More than ever, scholars enjoy online access to a dizzying volume of rare and hard-to-find newspapers. Where previous generations required the time and money to travel the country scrounging for files of newspapers, today we may be just a click or two away from websites where we can run keyword searches on hundreds, millions, or even billions of words. In the process, a variety of subfields of periodicals studies have sprung up, all eager to mine these enormous repositories for new materials and new ways to},
	urldate = {2020-04-06},
	publisher = {University of Wisconsin Press},
	editor = {Fielder, Brigitte and Senchyne, Jonathan},
	year = {2019},
}

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