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.

Being Black in 21st-Century America: Struggle, Challenges and Possibilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 239448112110203
Author(s):  
Nitesh Narnolia ◽  
Naresh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Black Population ◽  
National Society ◽  
Black And White ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society ◽  
Equal Space

This study attempts to define struggle and challenges black population of USA has been facing since ages and still facing in this 21st century when whole world is heading towards globalisation and post-modernism. As it has been reflected in the history of the nation, racial segregation has always been a part of national society and culture. This racial segregation has led the black population of USA to raise their voice for civil rights as well as equal opportunities in every field. These struggles and challenges before blacks to lead a dignified life have opened the future possibilities where both black and white youth’s understanding of race relations is required. The white youth of America is equally responsible for providing equal space to blacks in American society, culture and politics. Hence, the present study attempts to look at the history of race relations and relevance of race and race relations in the 21st-century USA, with special reference to the current issue of George Floyd in order to explain how status of blacks in the 21st-century USA is affected by this history and attitude of the State.

scholarly journals SPATIAL COMPOSITION OF BENTHIC SUBSTRATE AROUND BONTOSUA ISLAND

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Banda Selamat ◽  
Mahatma Lanuru ◽  
Amir Hamzah Muhiddin
Keyword(s):  
Reef Flat ◽  
Live Coral ◽  
Percent Cover ◽  
Small Islands ◽  
East Side ◽  
Coral Rubble ◽  
West Side ◽  
Spatial Composition ◽  
Index Ratio ◽  
Benthic Substrate

Coral reefs and seagrass are natural fortress for small islands from waves and ocean currents. The spatial distribution of these benthic substrate should be known and monitored regularly. This study aims were to map existing benthic substrates on the reef flat of Bontosua Island, determine the spatial composition and develop index ratio. Benthic substrates were surveyed using geotagging technique. Their distribution were estimate using Quickbird image that was rectified and classified using ISOcluster method and validate by 240 selected photos. The seagrass were surveyed at 8 stasions to record percent cover and species composition. Depth profiles were track along 10 reef flat line segment. Bontosua Island has an elongated shape from South to Northwest. This study had produced a benthic substrate distribution map with thematic accuracy 76%. Total area able to map were 54.2 hectares. About 43% benthic substrates at Bontosua were mixture of coral rubble, seagrass and algae, 20% was mixture of rubble and algae, 16% dominated by seagrass, 13% mixture of sand and seagrass and 8% substrate were dominated by live coral. There were eight seagrass species found with average percent cover 37.2 ± 12.5 percent. The spatial ratio of live coral, seagrass and mixed substrate for West side reef flat was 2:20:49 and 1:9:9 for East side. This indicate that the distribution of benthic substrates on the West side is much wider than on the East side. This approach potentially applied to study the relationship between benthic substrate composition and the deformation of small islands.

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.

The Black/White Skill Gap in Early Childhood: The Role of Parenting

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-551
Author(s):  
Benjamin G. Gibbs ◽  
Douglas B. Downey
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Cognitive Skill ◽  
Powerful Predictor ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
White Children ◽  
Black And White ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
American Society

Researchers have sought to understand why cognitive skill disparities between black and white children persist in American society, but the most thorough examinations study school-aged children during a period when the black/white skill gap is already well established. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Birth Cohort of 2001, we find trivial black/white differences in cognitive skills at 10 months of age but large disparities at 24 and 48 months, suggesting that the gap emerges in force between 10 months and age four. Although black/white differences in parenting are a powerful predictor, these variations are driven by socioeconomic and related factors that directly and indirectly shape cognitive development gaps between black and white children.

scholarly journals Fabric and Origin of Lateral Moraines, Bethartoli Glacier, Garhwal Himalaya, India

1978 ◽  
Vol 20 (84) ◽  
pp. 547-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald D. Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Garhwal Himalaya ◽  
Lateral Moraine ◽  
East Side ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
Lateral Ridge ◽  
Moraine Ridge

AbstractUnusually strong till fabrics in lateral moraines of Bethartoli Glacier provide information on the genesis and growth of the moraines. On the west side of the valley, down-stream of the present glacier snout, several lateral moraine crests are juxtaposed. Because the crests generally become higher towards the valley axis, they must represent re-advances of the glacier rather than recessional stages. On the east side of the valley only a single lateral ridge is found; presumably the ridge is composed of debris from several glacial advances. On the eroded proximal flank of this ridge a strong fabric is visible; the plane defined by a- and b-axes of stones is parallel to the distal flank of the moraine ridge, indicating that the moraine grew mainly by accretion of debris on to its distal flank. On the eroded proximal flank of the innermost west-side ridge the equivalent fabric is weaker, suggesting that distal flank accretion was less significant and proximal flank accretion more significant than on the east side.

scholarly journals Pedagogies of Race: The Politics of Whiteness in an African American Studies Course

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina V. Jones
Keyword(s):  
White Students ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
White People ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
American Society

This paper evaluates students' arguments for a color-blind society to avoid discussions related to the continued existence of racism in USA culture. Relatedly, this writer finds that as an black woman her status as facilitator in the classroom is directly challenged, on occasion, and that race and gender play a primary role in students' perception of classroom material and how she is perceived. Classroom discussions related to historical texts reveal that structures of domination have slanted perception of black and white people in U.S. culture. Finally, a key to open dialogue about race and racism, primarily for white students, is to explain and demonstrate the invisibility of whiteness or white privilege in American society.

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