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Micaela di Leonardo's fourteen-year analysis of The Tom Joyner Morning Show brilliantly highlights America's 'best kept secret'--the millions of working and middle-class African Americans' lives and interests ignored by mainstream media. di Leonardo documents the TJMS anchors' and audience's stinging humor, fine musical taste, and broadly progressive activist politics--an important and unique take on the black public sphere in the digital age -- Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, University of Pennsylvania In this penetrating analysis of The Tom Joyner Morning Show, Micaela di Leonardo brings us inside the world of Black Radio. It is a haven for communion and politics, and not only constructs a distinctive world view, but also provides the ferment for political consciousness and action -- Stephen Steinberg, Distinguished Professor of Urban Studies, Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY

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Micaela di Leonardo is Professor of Anthropology, African American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University. She has published five books and several dozen articles, and has worked as an anti-racist and feminist writer and activist since the 1970s. And she is an avid soul music fan.

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