Watching Jim Crow - The Struggles Over Mississippi TV, 19551969

Informationen zum Autor Steven D. Classen is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Klappentext ""Watching Jim Crow" is a highly original, sophisticated, and important piece of scholarship that will undoubtedly influence a variety of fields ranging from legal theory to cultural studies. One of the most striking things about this work is the compelling way it crosses barriers that have blinkered both scholarly and commonsense thinking about law, media, and culture."--Thomas Streeter, author of "Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States" Zusammenfassung A critical examination of racial discrimination in television broadcasting during the civil rights era Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Reconstruction 1 1: Broadcast Foundations 31 2: Consuming Civil Rights >3: Trouble around the Ponderosa 75 4: Programming/Regulating Whiteness 107 5: Blacking out: Remembering TV and the Sixties >6: Not Forgetting 174 Appendix: Chronology 197 Notes 205 Bibliography 245 Index 263

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• Authors: Classen, Steven D Classen, Steven D. Classen, Steven D. Classen
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2004
• EAN: 9780822333418
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3341-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi; Console-ing Passions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education