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Clarence Page

Born: 1947 in Dayton, Ohio
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Page lived in Chicago from 1969 - 1991. He is still active on the Chicago Tribune editorial board.

Biography: Page is a journalist, syndicated columnist, and senior member of The Chicago Tribune editorial board.After his graduating from Ohio University in 1969, Page took a position with The Chicago Tribune. He was drafted into the military after only six months with the paper. After his military service ended in 1971, he went back to work at the Tribune. At the Chicago Tribune, Page was a reporter and assistant city editor from 1969-80. He has been a member of the editorial board and a columnist since 1984. His Tribune column became syndicated in 1987 and he moved to Washington, DC to work at the bureau of the Chicago Tribune in 1991.Page also worked at WBBM-TV, Chicago as director of community affairs from 1980-82 and as the news department reporter and planning editor from 1982-84. He also appears regularly on such television news shows as CNN's ''The McLaughlin Group'', PBS's ''MacNeil/Lehrer Report'', and ABC's ''Nightline'', and offers biweekly commentary on National Public Radio's ''Sunday Morning Edition''. Page has also been a contributor to periodicals, including ''Chicago'', ''Chicago Reader'', ''Emerge'', ''New Republic'', ''New York Newsday'', Wall Street Journal, and ''Washington Monthly''.He has received honoris causa doctorates from Columbia College Chicago and Lake Forest College in Illinois.


Awards:
  • -- 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
  • -- 1987 American Civil Liberties Union James P. McGuire Award for columns on constitutional rights
  • -- 1980 Illinois UPI Award for community service for The Black Tax
  • -- 1976 Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting on

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: CPTime@aol.com
Clarence Page on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=clarence+page


Selected Titles

Culture worrier :
ISBN: 193284192X OCLC: 881469328

"The first collection of columns from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and nationally syndicated journalist Clarence Page, touching on politics, social commentary, pop culture, new media, race, and family"--

  Showing my color
ISBN: 0694516473 OCLC: 34311518

Harper Audio, New York, NY : ℗1996.

A series of essays focusing on race issues such as integration, apartness, conflict between black ambition and actin' white, and more.

Showing my color :
ISBN: 0060928018 OCLC: 36623844

HarperPerennial, New York, NY : 1997, ©1996.

The Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune presents a series of essays examining the central questions of race, gender, and ethnic identity that have emerged since the civil rights reforms of the mid-1960s. The essays address such topics as how racism still acts to keep nonwhites in subordinate political, economic, and social status; how the hip-hop generation has turned - black is beautiful on its head; and the volatile relationship between blacks and Jews. Page reflects on changes in the racial landscape since the 1960s and reconnects the increasingly abstract political debates about black conservatives, affirmative action, and the race card to the people for whom these words mean something more than just votes.

The African American newspaper :
ISBN: 9780810122901 OCLC: 70207968

Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill. : 2006.

 

 

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