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MEDIA:
MEDIA WHAT IS IT HOW DID IT SHAPE PRECEPTIONS AND EVIDENCE WHAT WERE TH
Uncle Tom’s Written by: Harriet Beecher A million copies were sold in England and even Queen Victoria The effectivene
Cabin 1852 Stowe who lived in Cincinnati wept over it and over two million were sold worldwide. The so called Anti-T
and heard first-hand accounts of book was translated into dozens of languages, and it was almost viewpoint, argu
runaway slaves. After the 1850 the top-selling book of the 19th century, second only to the book were ove
Compromise which attempted to Bible. tended to featu
strike a balance between free In the United States, Northern whites, many of whom had been wife, both of w
and slave states. Part of the apathetic and even hostile to blacks and abolitionists, started extended famil
Compromise was the Fugitive becoming more receptive towards antislavery views. This Many abolition
Slave Law. transition was partially the result of Stowe’s novel which sold enough to call f
About: The sentimental novel 300,000 copies in the US in the first year. Her writing style and of supporting c
depicts the reality of slavery plot were intensely emotional for contemporary audiences, and compelled to re
while also asserting that she had an unmistakable talent for stirring up within her readers Modern schola
Christian love can overcome a deep attachment to her characters. condescending
something as destructive as "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War" (1861-65) + especially with
enslavement of fellow human Lincoln said "So this is the little lady who started this great war." behavior, as we
beings. Many writers have credited this novel with focusing Northern his fate. The bo
anger at the injustices of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law and played a major
helping to fuel the abolitionist movement. Union general and American psych
politician James Baird Weaver said that the book convinced him The novel prim
to become active in the abolitionist movement. and DISCRIMIN
It was successful enough to get southern writers to write their time. Therefore
pro-slavery books such as Mary Henderson Eastman’s: Aunty and 1970s, the
Phillis’s Cabin (1852) the novel, sayin
betrayal", and t
owners. ‘Uncle
americans to ac
status ie. Malco
Red Rock: A Written by Thomas Nelson Page The novel was set during the reconstruction era
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Tendencies of showed great foresight on some ‘immorality’ which would lead to the extinction of their race. The sampling probl
the American public health issues, though his work was motivated by a concern about issues of race, and also basis of the wo
Negro (1896) work in some areas was biased the need of insurance companies to justify the higher life environmental
by racialist views. insurance premiums charged to African Americans.
Adventures of a novel by Mark Twain (who was Although Twain wrote the novel after slavery was abolished, he N-WORD CONT
Huckleberry born into a slave owning family set it several decades earlier, when slavery was still a fact of life. material in a te
Finn (1884) and he joined the confederate But even by Twain’s time, things had not necessarily gotten of slavery and o
cavalry during the civil war). much better for blacks in the South. In this light, we might read Controversy ov
Twain worked on the book when Twain’s depiction of slavery as an allegorical representation of and because th
reconstruction came to an end. the condition of blacks in the United States even after the commonly used
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn abolition of slavery. Just as slavery places the noble and moral vulgar and tabo
is an often scathing satire on Jim under the control of white society, no matter how degraded teaching the bo
entrenched attitudes, that white society may be, so too did the insidious racism that questioning of
particularly racism. The end of arose near the end of Reconstruction oppress black men for administrator o
Reconstruction and the start of illogical and hypocritical reasons. In Huckleberry Finn, Twain, by grotesque exam
de jure segregation on the pre- exposing the hypocrisy of slavery, demonstrates how racism the American L
text of self-defence against distorts the oppressors as much as it does those who are most frequentl
newly freed blacks. oppressed. The result is a world of moral confusion, in which 1990s. In 2011
seemingly “good” white people such as Miss Watson and Sally "nigger" with "
Phelps express no concern about the injustice of slavery or the included in sch
cruelty of separating Jim from his family. did an episode
David Bradley,
he argued it wa
Birth of a American silent epic drama film By 1922 it had been watched by more than five million people. It There were wid
Nation (1915) directed and co-produced by D. was the first blockbuster. of a Nation, suc
W. Griffith Was a commercial success, though it was highly controversial for criticised the de
The screenplay is adapted from its portrayal of black men (many played by white actors in 6The National A
the novel and play The blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white (NAACP), found
Clansman, both by Thomas women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force numerous citie
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President Abraham Lincoln by and in the 1920s became a massive organisation at the peak of he NAACP set u
John Wilkes Booth is dramatized. nativist fervour in the United States,” likely seen as th
organized a ma
Boston, and it w
Gone with the novel written by Margaret Gone with the Wind was popular with American readers from The novel portr
Wind 1936 Mitchell. The story is set in the outset and was the top American fiction bestseller in the from black Ame
NOVEL Clayton County and Atlanta, both year it was published and in 1937. More than 30 million copies 1. The supp
in Georgia, during the American have been printed worldwide. treat the
Civil War and Reconstruction Written from the perspective of the slaveholder, Gone with the content a
Era. It depicts the struggles of Wind is Southern plantation fiction. Its portrayal of slavery and abolition
young Scarlett O'Hara, the African Americans has been considered controversial, especially dog or m
spoiled daughter of a well-to-do by succeeding generations, as well as its use of a racial epithet 2. The supp
plantation owner, who must use and ethnic slurs common to the period. However, the novel has raised on
every means at her disposal to become a reference point for subsequent writers about the suffered.
claw her way out of poverty. South, both black and white. Scholars at American universities of the las
refer to it in their writings, interpret and study it. The novel has who are
been absorbed into American popular culture. Mitchell received freed bla
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937. It was adapted Mitchells perce
into a 1939 American film. Gone with the Wind is the only novel aggressive blac
by Mitchell published during her lifetime. Claude Neal in
Gone with the produced by David O. Selznick of “Gone with the wind served to stimulate debate about race Gone with the
Wind Movie Selznick International Pictures relations” Vivienne Sanders, Civil Rights and Race Relationships War myths and
1939 in the USA, 1950 -2009 white women a
It set records for the total number of wins and nominations at And, in the bac
the time. The film was immensely popular, becoming the content, clearly
highest-earning film made up to that point, and retained the likened Gone w
record for over a quarter of a century. When adjusted for imaginings of th
monetary inflation, it is still the most successful film in box-office white Southern
history. In the 1940s Academy Awards, Hattie McDaniel won an and the issue o
Oscar for Best Supporting Actress as her role as Mammy. described as a
