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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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DiGirolamo, Vincent. "Crying the News: Children, Street Work, and the American Press, 1830s-1920s," History Department, Princeton University, January 1997.
A subaltern history of print journalism, this dissertation explores the changing conditions, meanings, and relationships of the multitude of children who peddled newspapers on the streets of American cities in the 19th and early-20th centuries. It reconceptualizes juvenile street trading as part of a “shadow” economy that was integral to the survival of families, the socialization of youth, and the fortunes of an industry. It argues that newspapers were among the most influential child welfare institutions in the country, and that newsboys—and girls—acquired not just business values, but a wealth of knowledge about race, class, sex, and power.
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