Richard Prince’s Journal-isms: “Journalists of Color Part of ‘Undercover’ Database”

Journalists of Color Part of “Undercover” Database

“New York University has launched a database chronicling undercover journalism dating back to the 1800s,” the university announced on Monday.

“The archive, ‘Undercover Reporting,’ includes an array of stories, ranging from the slave trade in 1850s to efforts to boycott Jewish-owned businesses in the U.S. in the late 1930s to treatment of soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the 21st century.”

The database,www.undercoverreporting.org, is a joint endeavor of Professor Brooke Kroeger of NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the university’s Division of Libraries . . . ”

Kroeger provided Journal-isms with this sampling of material in the project by or about people of color:

• Working with Migrants; Shadowing the Undocumented (several stories)
• “The Forgotten People” — Dale Wright — New York World Telegram & Sun
• Journalistic Acts of Race, Class, Ethnic and Gender Impersonation 
• “The Underpaid and Under-Protected” —Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman — Atlanta Constitution
• “Enrique’s Journey” — Sonia Nazario — Los Angeles Times
• “By a Back Door to the U.S.” — Sandra Ochoa and Ginger Thompson — New York Times
• “Down & Out” — Neil Henry — Washington Post
• “The Crossing: A special report: A Perilous 4,000-Mile Passage to Work” — Charlie LeDuff — New York Times
• John Howard Griffin‘s “Black Like Me“
• Grace Halsell reportage. Halsell went undercover to report under a number of ethnic and racial guises.
• “At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die” — Charlie LeDuff — New York Times
• Antebellum Undercover
• “Blackbirding” — The Slave System’s Just-as-Evil Twin?