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  Racializing subversion: The FBI and the depiction of race in early Cold War movies
 
 
Title: Racializing subversion: The FBI and the depiction of race in early Cold War movies
Author: Noakes, John
Appeared in: Ethnic and racial studies
Paging: Volume 26 (2003) nr. 4 pages 728-749
Year: 2003-07
Contents: During the 1940s, as part of its investigation of 'Communist Infiltration Into the Motion Picture Industry', the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] borrowed criteria for determining if a motion picture contained communist propaganda from the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals [MPAPAI], a private, anti-communist organization located in Hollywood. An analysis of the FBI's interpretation of movies that featured black characters or explored racial themes reveals how the agency racialized its investigation of subversiveness in the early Cold War period. In the FBI's application of the MPAPAI criteria, blackness became synonymous with subversiveness and whiteness with Americanism. The FBI's racial project, as revealed in these reviews, is linked to its framing of the Communist threat and contrasted to the Truman administration's racial project and framing of the Communist threat
Publisher: Routledge
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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