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Book Review


Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity. By Alan Nadel. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. xii, 224 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1398-6.)
In Television in Black-and-White America, Alan Nadel offers analysis of segregated fifties and sixties television by way of artful analogies to the small screen—including that of the homogenizing influence of post–World War II interstate superhighways that replaced old roads and dissected and ignored communities of color. Employing the example of an older roadway in the book's conclusion, Nadel writes, "the actual Route 66, like its television series namesake, no longer exists" (p. 182). . . .
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