{"id":10871,"date":"2011-10-10T14:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T21:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=10871"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:35:04","slug":"women-and-the-broadcast-blacklist-carol-a-stabile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/women-and-the-broadcast-blacklist-carol-a-stabile\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and the Broadcast Blacklist\u2014Carol A. Stabile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carol A. Stabile, \u201cWomen and the Broadcast Blacklist,\u201d Communication Currents: A Publication of the National Communication Association<\/em> (Volume 6 , Issue 5 – October 2011)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cIn June 1950, an organization called American Business Consultants published Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television<\/em>, a slender volume that would become known as the bible of the broadcast blacklist. In New York City, then center of broadcast production, the publication of this volume received little attention, overshadowed as it was by the onset of the Korean War less than a week later. The first two casualties of the broadcast blacklist that followed its publication were professional women who were politically active\u2014 white actor Jean Muir and African-Caribbean musician Hazel Scott\u2014whose involvement in civil rights was seen as evidence of their communist sympathies. By remembering the lives and work of women who, in the words of blacklisted writer Shirley Graham DuBois, have been \u2018wiped out of history\u2019 the purpose of this research is to restore the accounts of a generation of politically active professional women to broadcast history.\u201d To read the entire article<\/p>\n

Carol A. Stabile is director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon and professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication, Department of English, and Department of Women\u2019s Studies. She is currently working on a book about women writers and the blacklist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carol A. Stabile, \u201cWomen and the Broadcast Blacklist,\u201d Communication Currents: A Publication of the National Communication Association (Volume 6 , Issue 5 – October 2011) \u201cIn June 1950, an organization called American Business Consultants published Red Channels: The Report of…<\/p>\n

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