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Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948 / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 0807848042
- ISBN-13:
- 9780807848043
- Pub. Date:
- 05/31/1999
- Publisher:
- The University of North Carolina Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0807848042
- ISBN-13:
- 9780807848043
- Pub. Date:
- 05/31/1999
- Publisher:
- The University of North Carolina Press
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780807848043 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 05/31/1999 |
Series: | The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 408 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.91(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Federal Constructions of "the Negro"
1 Americans All, Immigrants All: Cultural Pluralism and Americanness
2 Freedom's People: Radio and the Political Uses of African American Culture and History
3 "Negro Morale," the Office of War Information, and the War Department
Part II Airing the Race Question
4 The National Urban League on the Radio
5 Radio and the Political Discourse of Racial Equality
6 New World A'Coming and Destination Freedom
Conclusion
Appendix: Radio Programs Discussed in the Text
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
Rachel Davis DuBois
Cover of brochure advertising Americans All, Immigrants All
Cover of phonograph recordings of Americans All, Immigrants All
Paul Robeson appearing on the first broadcast of Freedom's People in 1941
Placard advertising Freedom's People
Covers of Office of Education brochure for Freedom's People
Studio audience at Freedom's People broadcast
Ambrose Caliver appearing on Freedom's People
OWI official Theodore M. Berry
Radio commentator H. V. Kaltenborn, National Urban League official Ann Tanneyhill, pianist Hazel Scott, and a member of the Charioteers preparing for the 1944 National Urban League broadcast
Announcement of an America's Town Meeting of the Air broadcast, "Are We Solving America's Race Problem?"
President Harry S. Truman addressing the 1947 NAACP convention
Roi Ottley
Richard Durham
Cast of Destination Freedom
What People are Saying About This
A brilliant and provocative book. It chronicles masterfully black perceptions of the radio airwaves as a new arena in which to project the message of racial equality.American Historical Review
Groundbreaking. . . . A study of great value to scholars of black history, communications, propaganda, and mid-century America. No one working in these subjects should overlook this book.The Historian
Savage's strikingly original book provides a rich perspective on public broadcasting when radio was the dominant mass medium. . . . Fastidiously executed . . . Savage has done a superb job.Journal of Southern History
Broadcasting Freedom contributes to two important areas of inquiry that have expanded greatly in recent years: the history of radio and the history of the African American struggle for civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s. This extraordinary book will help shape the way we think about both.Journal of American History
Clearly organized and well written, Broadcasting Freedom explores a previously unexamined area of the Civil Rights Movement.Choice
A polished, scholarly account that traces the evolution of national radio in confronting stereotypes of Blacks and pushing for political and economic equality. Serious readers of Black history will appreciate this carefully researched and well-written book.Emerge
[Savage's] deft treatment of the activists, programming, public policies, and symbolic politics broadens views of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and pioneers new scholarship in radio's rich but virtually ignored historical role. . . . Highly recommended.Library Journal
Broadcasting Freedom is the remarkable story of the African American struggle for a national voice and the State's reluctance to give up the mic. A powerful, eloquent testament to the men and women who took to the airwaves to fight racism at home, this book will change the way we think about World War II, the role of mass culture in the civil rights movement, and the tortured relationship between black folk and the federal government.Robin D. G. Kelley, New York University
While we have known the importance of television for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the mass media's role in racial politics has not had a historyat least not until the publication of Barbara Savage's extraordinary new book on radio and race during World War II. She has ingeniously opened up a whole new realm for exploring African American (and white) racial consciousness and ideology during the 1940s.Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University
Barbara Dianne Savage offers a marvelous portrait of Americans in solution as they listened enrapt, during the golden age of the medium, to broadcast versions of their improving ethnic and racial selves. Broadcasting Freedom is splendid social history told at a nuts-and-bolts level of policy-making we seldom see.David Levering Lewis, New York University