Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle Contributor(s): Ward, Brian E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813027446 ISBN-13: 9780813027449 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
Dewey: 302.230 |
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.18" W x 9.12" (1.07 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "A dazzling array of essays that vastly expands our understanding of the role of the media and popular culture in the politics of race. From Andy Griffith to Amiri Baraka, from Leadbelly's blues to "Sweet Sweetback's Baaadassss Song," this is a brilliant and irreplaceable collection."--Timothy B. Tyson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power Stimulating and insightful, these essays on the relationship among the media, popular culture, and the postwar African American freedom struggle offer new perspectives on the nature of the Civil Rights Movement and its legacies. At the same time, they suggest how much the struggle itself shaped important trends in American culture and mass media in the 1950s and 1960s. Bringing together a range of voices seldom heard together, this book challenges readers to reconsider the ways in which a simplistic "master narrative" of the Movement has come to dominate popular, and even some scholarly, understandings of the meaning of the freedom struggle. CONTENTS Introduction: Forgotten Wails and Master Narratives: Media, Culture, and Memories of the Modern African American Freedom Struggle, by Brian Ward
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