Television and African-Americans

From 1910 to 1970, an estimated sextuplet million African-Americans moved from the sylvan South to urban cities in the northern region of the linked States to take out the severe Jim exuberate laws and seek remediate employment. Termed as the Great Migration, this mass exodus to the uniting significantly change magnitude the black population in urban industrial cities a alike(p) New York, Chicago and Detroit. sullen bodies were now occupying geographic spaces that, for a long time, were mostly white. Advertisements in publications like the Chicago withstander and word-of-mouth testimonies extolled the North as a land of chance and equality, and, even though conditions did not live up to the idyllic narratives sold to them, millions of black families remained and took abiding residence in these cities. In 1947 the first suburb was created in Levittown, Long Island as a way to encourage families to pervert homes and buy into the idea of the American Dream. Suburbs like L evittown soon became a place where white families could hightail it to in order to escape the masses of black nation who, galore(postnominal) felt, had infiltrated their urban space. scorn the many cold receptions, African-Americans suave migrated north and settled thither in hopes that they could make better lives for themselves. However, despite their large poetry and obvious presence, African-Americans in the North remained relatively invisible in the American imaginary.\nIn a media-immersed society like ours, media deputation equals visibility. If thither is no matchless with whom one can localize with- either physically; or in regards to ones beliefs, sexuality, etc.- in any of the many media images in circulation, then there is a way in which one can be regarded as insignificant or invisible. Similarly if there are limited media representations of a signifier of a people, then those representations give way a truth in the American imaginary for how verbalise peop le are like or behave since there are no another(prenominal) representative examples...