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Color Adjustment

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Color Adjustment is a 1992 documentary film that traces 40 years of race relations and the representation of African Americans through the lens of prime-time television entertainment, scrutinizing television's racial myths. [1]

34 relations: Alvin Francis Poussaint, Amos 'n' Andy, Bamboozled, Beulah (radio and TV series), California Newsreel, David L. Wolper, Diahann Carroll, Documentary film, Erik Barnouw Award, Esther Rolle, Ethnic Notions, Frank's Place, Good Times, Hal Kanter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., IMDb, Julia (TV series), Marlon Riggs, Nat King Cole, Organization of American Historians, Patricia Turner, PBS, Peabody Award, POV (TV series), Roots (1977 miniseries), Ruby Dee, Sanford and Son, Sundance Film Festival, The Cosby Show, The Jeffersons, The New York Times, Tim Reid, Tongues Untied, Vivian Kleiman.

Alvin Francis Poussaint

Alvin Francis Poussaint, M. D. is an American psychiatrist well known for his research on the effects of racism in the black community.

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Amos 'n' Andy

Amos 'n' Andy is an American radio and television sitcom set in Harlem, Manhattan's historic black community.

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Bamboozled

Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the resulting violent fallout from the show's success.

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Beulah (radio and TV series)

Beulah is an American situation-comedy series that ran on CBS Radio from 1945 to 1954, and on ABC Television from 1950 to 1952.

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California Newsreel

California Newsreel, founded in 1968, is an American non-profit, social justice film distribution and production company based in San Francisco, California.

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David L. Wolper

David Lloyd Wolper (January 11, 1928 – August 10, 2010) was an American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A. Confidential, and the blockbuster Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).

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Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diahann Johnson, July 17, 1935) is an American television and stage actress, singer and model known for her performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones (1954) and Porgy and Bess (1959) as well as on Broadway.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Erik Barnouw Award

The Erik Barnouw Award—also known as the OAH Erik Barnouw Award—is named after the late Erik Barnouw, a Columbia University historian and professor who was a specialist in mass media.

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Esther Rolle

Esther Elizabeth Rolle (November 8, 1920 November 17, 1998) was a Bahamian American actress.

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Ethnic Notions

Ethnic Notions is a 1987 documentary film directed by Marlon Riggs.

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Frank's Place

Frank's Place is an American comedy-drama series that aired on CBS for 22 episodes during the 1987-1988 television season.

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Good Times

Good Times is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from February 8, 1974, to August 1, 1979.

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Hal Kanter

Hal Kanter (born December 18, 1918, in Savannah, Georgia – died November 6, 2011 in Encino, California) was a writer, producer and director, principally for comedy actors such as Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, and Elvis Presley (in Loving You and Blue Hawaii), for both feature films and television.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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Julia (TV series)

Julia is an American sitcom.

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Marlon Riggs

Marlon Troy Riggs (February 3, 1957 – April 5, 1994) was an American filmmaker, educator (professor), poet, and gay rights activist.

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Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

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Organization of American Historians

The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history.

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Patricia Turner

Patricia A. Turner, Ph.D, a folklorist, author and academic, is the executive director of The Reinvention Center and the Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education for UCLA.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Peabody Award

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards) program, named for American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and online media.

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POV (TV series)

POV (also written P.O.V.) is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television series which features independent nonfiction films.

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Roots (1977 miniseries)

Roots is an American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

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Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and civil rights activist.

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Sanford and Son

Sanford and Son is an American sitcom that ran on the NBC television network from January 14, 1972, to March 25, 1977.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, takes place annually in Park City, Utah.

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The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992.

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The Jeffersons

The Jeffersons is an American sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from January 18, 1975, through July 2, 1985, lasting 11 seasons and a total of 253 episodes.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Tim Reid

Timothy Lee "Tim" Reid (born December 19, 1944) is an American actor and film director best known for his roles in prime time American television programs, such as Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–82), Marcel "Downtown" Brown on Simon & Simon (1983–87), Ray Campbell on Sister, Sister (1994–99) and William Barnett on That '70s Show (2004–06).

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Tongues Untied

Tongues Untied is a 1989 semi-documentary film directed by Marlon Riggs and starring Marlon Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Brian Freeman.

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Vivian Kleiman

Vivian Kleiman is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Adjustment

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