“Hunger in America” and the Power of Television
“Hunger in America” and the Power of Television
Poor People, Physicians, and the Mass Media in the War against Poverty
Laurie B. Green By tracing the origins of the award-winning 1968 CBS documentary, “Hunger in America,” back to the “discovery of hunger” in the Mississippi Delta by U.S. senators and physicians a year earlier, this chapter shows how the producers used the “power of television” to transform highly racialized stereotypes of poor people into a compelling, politically effective visual narrative
Keywords: Traditional healing, Ethnic Studies, Medicine, African Americans, Native Americans, Critical Race Theory, Public health, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Immigration Studies
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