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Pendaz, Sadie. "30. Political Cartooning, African American's Engagement with Africa and the Role of Collective Memory, 1955-2005" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242695_index.html>

Pendaz, S. R. , 2008-07-31 "30. Political Cartooning, African American's Engagement with Africa and the Role of Collective Memory, 1955-2005" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242695_index.html

Publication Type: Poster Abstract: This study examines the role of the collective memory of Africa by African Americans using newspaper data from The Minneapolis Spokesman from 1955-2005. The Minneapolis Spokesman is the leading Twin Cities African American newspaper. I use the data to assess media discourses about political and cultural engagement by African Americans with Africa. This data serves as an assessment of the role of African Americans� collective memory of Africa. It also serves as a fulcrum to understand the ongoing and dynamic relationship between African Americans and East African immigrants who have arrived and settled in the Twin Cities since the mid-1990s. The dataset consists of all issues from every third year of publication. I read through and apply a systematic coding scheme to all of the articles. I have also conducted an interview with the newspaper�s current editor and have a set of questions asking some of the African American interviewees about the relevance of the newspaper in their lives. Ethnic, and particularly African American newspapers, have long been noted as important sources of such information, among sociologists (Blau and Brown 2001; Danky and Hady 1998; Franzosi 1987; Wynar and Wynar 1976), and even in prominent historical immigration studies (Thomas, Znaniecki and Zaretsky 1995). The demarcation of 1955 is important because it comes 10 years before the passing of two important pieces of legislation: the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. The selection of 1955 helps to establish the political and cultural schemas (Gerteis 2004; Sewell 1992) utilized by African Americans through the newspaper shortly before these acts and following through to the present. I also have access to (and helped collect and compile) a large database of articles from the local mainstream presses (the Star Tribune, the Pioneer Press, etc.) relating to the topic of East African immigration and African Americans in the Twin Cities more broadly. I also use the local Somali newspaper, The Somaliland Times, to provide additional context.

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