Radio, Race, and Audible Difference in Post-1945 America The Citizen
In the second half of the twentieth century, new sounds began to reverberate across the United States. The voices of African-Americans as well as of women, Latinx, queer, and trans people broke through in social movements, street protests, and in media st
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Art M. Blake
Radio, Race, and Audible Difference in Post-1945 America
Art M. Blake
Radio, Race, and Audible Difference in Post-1945 America The Citizens Band
Art M. Blake Ryerson University Toronto, ON, Canada
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Preface
“Go back to where you came from!” “Send her home!” As I sit at my computer completing this manuscript in the summer of 2019, American and international news resound with racist and xenophobic voices, in particular those of President Donald Trump and his supporters. Trump’s verbal attacks on four recently elected members of Congress, all of them women, all racialized and all on the progressive end of the Democratic Party’s limited political spectrum, represent the most recent example of tighter limits being drawn around who supposedly belongs and who does not belong in the United States. Although all four women are American citizens, and only one was born outside the United States, their president and almost all members of the Republican Party use the women’s racial and political difference as grounds to reject them as Americans, as fellow citizens. While “citizen” and “citizenship” are legal terms linked to constitutional and political status and rights, they are also terms used colloquially to indicate a person who belongs or is entitled to experience a state of belonging—being the right type of person in the right place. Citizenship and mobility are al
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