CAT 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Norman Lear, Roscoe Brown, Sanford And Son
13 Feb 2017
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Civil rights, politics of respectability, and waging war against stereotypes. Dressing in your sunday best, and make an effort to divert from the. Many minorities were written out of the suburban places, relegated back to the cities. Federal housing administration would prevent certain" people from purchasing housing in suburban neighborhoods. Suburban spaces were preserved for primarily white, designed to purify" communal places. Black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home- mortgage. White supremacy dominated the economic value of neighborhoods in the suburbs. Crafts the city space to be unruly. Rise of counter-culture (youth culture): see shifts in movies. Relative peace and calm (or seemingly so) after violence of the 1960s. Show implies that harmony could be achieved if we all just get along. Black lives escorted onto screen by white writers. Black characters still mostly appeared in comic roles or in variety shows.
