Racializing subversion
The FBI and the depiction of race in early Cold War movies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2150171 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Noakes, John A Noakes (University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 728-749 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0141987032000087389 |
| OpenAlex | W1999009373 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 20 |
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
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cold war · Communism · Depiction · Framing (construction · Hollywood · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subversion · European history and politics · Gender Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Race, History, and American Society
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2018 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |