Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity Jeffrey Brown It has united Israelis and

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Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity Jeffrey Brown It has united Israelis andAlan Nadel's provocative new book reminds us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences. Television did not invent whiteness for America, but it did reinforce it as the normparticularly during the Cold War years. Nadel now shows just how instrumental it was in constructing a narrow, conservative, and very white vision of America. Nadel depicts a time when television effectively hijacked