Black and White Australians: Race Relations in History

1983 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Russel Ward
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Black And White

Eddie Anderson, Rochester, and Race in 1930s Radio and Film

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Black Press ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Jim Crow Era ◽  
Time Part

African-American dancer, singer, comedian Eddie Anderson pursued an entertainment career in California, his opportunities limited by Jim Crow-era racism in Hollywood but also shaped opportunities in night clubs and cabarets that catered to both black and white patrons. Winning an audition for a one-time role on Benny’s radio show, Anderson’s inimitable gravelly voice spurred Benny to create a full time part, the character of Rochester Van Jones, Jack’s butler and valet, in late 1937. Although initially hampered by stereotyped minstrel-show dialogue and character habits, Rochester soon became renowned by both white and black listeners for his ability to criticize the “Boss” in impertinent manner. Virtually co-starred in three films with Benny that were highly successful at the box office, commenters in the black press in 1940 hoped that Rochester offered “a new day” in improved race relations.

Through Different Eyes: Black and White Perspectives on American Race Relations.

1974 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 862
Author(s):  
Michael Preston ◽  
Peter I. Rose ◽  
Stanley Rothman ◽  
William J. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Black And White ◽  
American Race Relations

Bringing “Urgent Issues” to the Vast Wasteland

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aniko Bodroghkozy
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Federal Communications Commission ◽  
East Side ◽  
Network Television ◽  
West Side ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Black And White ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
White Guilt ◽  
American Society

This chapter examines how entertainment television addressed the theme of race relations and “black and white together” by focusing on CBS's East Side/West Side, one of the first prime-time shows to feature an African American in a continuing role. Many cultural critics complained about the perceived decline in quality of television programming. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow even described network television as “a vast wasteland.” This chapter considers the television networks' inauguration of a new form of programming dubbed “New Frontier character dramas” as they tried to soothe their presumed white audiences about race relations. It explores how East Side/West Side presented to its viewers issues of racism, black rage, white guilt, the place of African Americans in American society, and the appropriate response by white liberals. It explains how East Side/West Side became a terrain of struggle for mostly Northern, mostly white Americans trying to negotiate positions around race and Kennedy-era liberalism. It also argues that the series was out of step with the story that television really wanted to tell.

Appalachian Dance

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Eike Spalding
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
European Immigrants ◽  
Shared Understandings ◽  
Social Uses

This book employs twenty-five years' worth of rich interviews with black and white Virginians, Tennesseeans, and Kentuckians to explore the evolution and social uses of dance in each region. It analyzes how issues as disparate as industrialization around coal, race relations, and the 1970s folk revival profoundly influenced freestyle clogging and other dance forms. The book then reveals how African Americans and Native Americans, as well as European immigrants drawn to the timber mills and coal fields, added to local dance vocabularies. By placing each community in its sociopolitical and economic context, the book explores how the formal and stylistic nuances found in Appalachian dance reflect the beliefs, shared understandings, and experiences of the community at large. The book examines the dynamism of Appalachian dance traditions and the creativity involved in their evolution. Focusing on six dance communities, the book documents the experience of dancing as people have enjoyed it, or continue to enjoy it. It also explores the dance communities' divergent responses to social change, including industrialization, as well as the use of dance for community development.

Black and White American Opinions Towards South Africa

1982 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milfred C. Fierce
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human History ◽  
Color Line ◽  
White American ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Technological Achievement

The erudition of the late W. E. B. DuBois was never more prophetic than in 1903 when he issued his famous dictum that ‘The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line – the relation of the darker to the lighter race of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.’ The United States of America, for its remarkable technological achievement and democratic example, despite decades of difficulty in race relations; and the Republic of South Africa, for its unique violation of human rights: each represents in its own special way both the best and the worst in human history, and are fitting testaments to DuBois's clairvoyance.

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