Fredi Washington

A Reader in Black Feminist Media Criticism

by Fredi WashingtonCarol StabileRoopika RisamLaurie Avant WoodardMorning Glory RitchieMalia MulliganLydia GutermanMatthew SwindellEmil Gil

Best known for her appearance in Imitation of Life (1934), Black actress Fredi Washington was a prolific writer whose incisive commentary on film, theatre, labor, and race in the 1940s provides a keen look at media cultures of the time. This volume shares more than 300+ columns that Washington wrote for the Harlem newspaper The People's Voice between 1942 and 1948, when it ceased publication.

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Front Matter

Fredi Washington in Her Own Words

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    Features1942-1946

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    Solid Meddlin1943

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    Odds and Ends1943-1947

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    Headlines and Footlights1943-1945

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    Fredi Says1944-1947

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    Footlights and Floodlights1947

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Metadata

  • original publisher
    The People's Voice
  • original publisher place
    Harlem, NY
  • publisher
    Reanimate Publishing Collective
  • publisher place
    Hanover, NH
  • rights
    CC BY-NC 4.0
  • rights territory
    US