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Devorah Heitner - Black Power TV - 9780822354093 - V9780822354093
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Black Power TV

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Description for Black Power TV Hardback. In the wake of the King assassination and subsequent uprisings, Black Public Affairs Television emerged. Devorah Heitner tells its story, analyzing the production, reception, and content of its early groundbreaking programs. Num Pages: 208 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFDT; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 15. Weight in Grams: 436.
In Black Power TV, Devorah Heitner chronicles the emergence of Black public affairs television starting in 1968. She examines two local shows, New York's Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant and Boston's Say Brother, and the national programs Soul! and Black Journal. These shows offered viewers radical and innovative programming: the introspections of a Black police officer in Harlem, African American high school students discussing visionary alternatives to the curriculum, and Miriam Makeba comparing race relations in the United States to apartheid in South Africa. While Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant and Say Brother originated from a desire to contain Black discontent during a period of urban ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822354093
SKU
V9780822354093
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About Devorah Heitner
Devorah Heitner is a media scholar based in Chicago.

Reviews for Black Power TV
"Black Power TV effectively works in the space of the articulation between an emergent radical Black identity, the ascendant network of public television, and the debate over what equality and racial democracy might actually look like from the vantage point of progressive Black people. Devorah Heitner provides a rich look into an exciting and innovative world of black self-making and ... Read more

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