Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity Jeffrey Brown \"gl_music\":\"Featured in Music\"

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Two major events have forced the issue

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1426371985

the country bitterly divided by racial tension

Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity Jeffrey Brown \"gl_music\":\"Featured in Music\"Alan Nadel's provocative new book reminds us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences. Television did not invent whiteness for America, but it did reinforce it as the normparticularly during the Cold War years. Nadel now shows just how instrumental it was in constructing a narrow, conservative, and very white vision of America. Nadel depicts a time when television effectively hijacked