Episodes: Season 2, Episode 3

About the Episode

In the third and final episode of the season, Hattie finds it difficult to keep up as Hollywood and her community forge ahead to a new era of black representation and politics.

 

The Sources

  • Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (book) by Jill Watts

  • Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (book) by Jill Watts

  • Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era (book) by Ellen Scott

  • Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from WWII to the Civil Rights Era (book) by Thomas Cripps

  • Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era (book) by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

  • Beulah and the Moynihan Report (article) by Gerald R. Butters

  • From Blackface to Beulah: Subtle Subversion in Early Black Sitcoms (article) by Mack Scott

  • Race, Class, and Gender in Beulah and Bernie Mac (article) by Angela Nelson

  • Star Dances: African-American Constructions of Stardom, 1925-1960 (book chapter) by Arthur Knight

  • Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films (books) by Donald Bogle

The Media Cited

  • Clips from various Academy Award speeches (youtube.com)

*Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research

The Music

  • Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon  (marmosetmusic.com)

  • Bummin on Tremolo by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

  • Love Her by Loyalty Freak Music (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

  • Comic Plodding by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

  • Nostalgic Piano by Rafael Krux (freepd.com) — Public Domain

  • Remember the Time We Used to Play by Kumiko (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

  • Ave Marimba by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

  • The Boats We've Been On by smallertide (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

  • Danse Morialta by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

  • Porch Blues by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

  • Pepper's Theme (full mix) by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

  • Steps by Sunne (marmosetmusic.com)

The Team

All episodes are written, produced, and edited by Diana Martinez. All artwork for the show was designed by Shelby Moring. Special thanks to Dr. Anna Carroll and Dr. Hannah Godwin for input on this episode.