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From the introduction of animated film in the early 1900s to the
1950s, ethnic humor was a staple of American-made cartoons. Yet as
Christopher Lehman shows in this revealing study, the depiction of
African Americans in particular became so inextricably linked to
the cartoon medium as to influence its evolution through those five
decades. He argues that what is in many ways most distinctive about
American animation reflects white animators' visual interpretations
of African American cultural expression. The first American
animators drew on popular black representations, many of which were
caricatures rooted in the culture of southern slavery. During the
1920s, the advent of the sound-synchronized cartoon inspired
animators to blend antebellum-era black stereotypes with the modern
black cultural expressions of jazz musicians and Hollywood actors.
When the film industry set out to desexualize movies through the
imposition of the Hays Code in the early 1930s, it regulated the
portrayal of African Americans largely by segregating black
characters from others, especially white females. At the same time,
animators found new ways to exploit the popularity of African
American culture by creating animal characters like Bugs Bunny who
exhibited characteristics associated with African Americans without
being identifiably black. By the 1950s, protests from civil rights
activists and the growing popularity of white cartoon characters
led animators away from much of the black representation on which
they had built the medium. Even so, animated films today continue
to portray African American characters and culture, and not
necessarily in a favorable light. Drawing on a wide range of
sources, including interviews with former animators, archived
scripts for cartoons, and the films themselves, Lehman illustrates
the intimate and unmistakable connection between African Americans
and animation.Choice
The book examines how the coalition among the national African
American civil rights organizations disintegrated between 1967 and
1973 as a result of the factionalism that splintered the groups
from within as well as the federal government's sabotage of the
Civil Rights Movement. Focusing on four major civil rights groups,
Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A
Fragile Coalition, 1967-1973 documents how factions within the
movement and sabotage from the federal government led to the
gradual splintering of the Civil Rights Movement. Well-known
historian Christopher P. Lehman builds his case convincingly,
utilizing his original research on the Movement's later years-a
period typically overlooked and unexamined in the existing
literature on the Movement. The book identifies how each civil
rights group challenged poverty, violence, and discrimination
differently from one another and describes how the federal
government intentionally undermined civil rights organizations'
efforts. It also shows how civil rights activists gravitated to
political careers, explains the rising prominence of civil rights
speakers to the Movement in the absence of political organizing by
civil rights groups, and documents the Movement's influence upon
Richard Nixon's presidency. Identifies the instances in which the
civil rights groups acted as a united coalition between 1967 and
1973 and recognizes how disagreements on separatism, feminism, and
political campaigning split the Civil Rights Movement into
individual civil rights groups Establishes the importance of women
to the survival of the Movement in its later years Shows how the
Movement influenced antiwar demonstrations of the era and struggled
to remain nonviolent as Black Power militancy peaked Details
efforts by the White House, the FBI, and state governments to
infiltrate and sabotage the Movement Provides broad content ideal
for undergraduate and graduate college students taking courses on
the Civil Rights Movement as well as for professional and lay
historians
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