{"product_id":"a-second-sight-how-the-wonder-and-vision-of-black-mediamakers-push-america-toward-freedom-9780358726500","title":"A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I have been waiting for a book like this, and I'm so glad it's here.\" -- Clint Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eHow the Word is Passed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSince the nation's founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003ea \"second sight\"\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003ethat reveals the truth about the nation to itself. As renowned media scholar Sarah J. Jackson charts in this bold and daring masterwork, at the center of this effort has been an extraordinary cast of Black journalists, photographers, filmmakers, radio hosts, podcasters and other mediamakers who have drawn on the visionary tradition of second sight to advance democracy and broaden our most fundamental American values.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Black mediamakers raise their voices and speak uncomfortable truths about America, they shape memories of the nation and push us toward a future more closely aligned with our espoused values. For two centuries, this \"second sight\" has been an overlooked engine of American democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from W.E.B. Du Bois's philosophical work, along with deep historical analysis and dozens of interviews with today's most active Black mediamakers, \u003ci\u003eA Second Sight \u003c\/i\u003eshows these visionaries positioned at the margins of their industries and navigating fraught relationships to power. They've warned of the greatest dangers to democracy--from slavery to Nazism, and mass incarceration to misinformation. Their work is central to our culture and politics. Yet it is devalued, met with violent censure, or achieved only via ingenious work-arounds. This tension has sharpened their commitments to truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow one of our nation's foremost scholars of American media, Sarah J. Jackson, presents an appraisal that situates Black mediamakers at the vanguard of telling the American story. Brilliant, urgent and illuminating, \u003ci\u003eA Second Sight \u003c\/i\u003eis an authentic and candid grappling with a discordant thread in the American fabric and, in tracing a bolder vision for the nation, presents a way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah J. Jackson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.25w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780358726500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/10\/2026 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJackson, Sarah J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah J. Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and co-director of the Media, Inequality and Change Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her previous books, \u003ci\u003eBlack Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e#HashtagActivism, \u003c\/i\u003e examine the relationship between media, race and social change. Research for \u003ci\u003eA Second Sight\u003c\/i\u003e was supported by an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and a New America Fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Sarah J. Jackson \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48483363946653,"sku":"9780358726500","price":38.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_338afa04-1ebf-486d-8901-8754f599d356.jpg?v=1782287316","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/a-second-sight-how-the-wonder-and-vision-of-black-mediamakers-push-america-toward-freedom-9780358726500","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}