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)
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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.