Date of Award
11-21-2008
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Communication
First Advisor
Dr. Leonard Teel - Chair
Second Advisor
Dr. Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
Third Advisor
Dr. James Darsey
Fourth Advisor
Dr. Mary Stuckey
Abstract
This thesis analyzes the specific journalistic conventional practices of newspapers in Georgia as they focused on the “Cherokee Question” in 1828-1832, the critical period during which the state considered the removal of the Cherokees from Georgia. The research compares news and opinion texts in five Georgia newspapers with news and opinion texts in the newspaper launched by the Cherokee nation in 1828,the Cherokee Phoenix. While the conventional practices in the white-owned press tended to legitimize removal, the Phoenix adopted some of the same conventions in order to defend and negotiate Cherokee culture and issues.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1061310
Recommended Citation
Hobgood, Jr., James Hollister, "Georgia Newspaper Coverage Discovering Conventional Practices of the 'Cherokee Question': Prelude to the Removal, 1828-1832." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2008.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1061310