All is “Wells” With My Soul: Analysis of Conditioned Agency via The Defender's Coverage on the Construction and Opening of the Ida B. Wells Homes

Authors

Loren Saxton Coleman, University of Southern Mississippi
Elli Lester Roushanzamir, The University of Georgia

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2-2018

Department

Mass Communication and Journalism

School

Communication

Abstract

This critical textual analysis explores how people exercise spatial and communicative agency through media, such as the Chicago Defender, and in social and physical space, such as the Wells Homes. The research suggests that the Defender's coverage of the Wells Homes' construction is an exemplar of how media practices reinforced restricting structures of race, class and space, while simultaneously providing opportunities for residents and community members to collectively produce sites of social resistance and transformation.

Publication Title

Howard Journal of Communications

Volume

29

Issue

4

First Page

368

Last Page

386

Recommended Citation

Saxton Coleman, L., Roushanzamir, E. (2018). All is “Wells” With My Soul: Analysis of Conditioned Agency via The Defender's Coverage on the Construction and Opening of the Ida B. Wells Homes. Howard Journal of Communications, 29(4), 368-386.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/18124