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Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969 » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Steven D. Classen, Lynn Spigel
ISBN-13: 9780822333418, ISBN-10: 0822333414
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Steven D. Classen

Steven D. Classen is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.

Book Synopsis

A critical examination of racial discrimination in television broadcasting during the civil rights era.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction : reconstruction1
1Broadcast foundations31
2Consuming civil rights52
3Trouble around the Ponderosa75
4Programming/regulating whiteness107
5Blacking out : remembering TV and the Sixties140
6Not forgetting174
App: Chronology197
Notes205
Bibliography245
Index263

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