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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Federal Writers Project"”.
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“'They was Things Past the Tellin’: A Reconsideration of Sexuality and Memory in the Ex-Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers’ Project"
<p><strong></strong>In 1936, Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) employees began interviewing formerly enslaved men and women, allowing them to speak publicly of their experiences under slavery. Defying racism and the repressions of Jim Crow, ex-slaves discussed intimate details of their lives. Many …
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America Eats: Taste and Race in the New Deal Sensory Economy
… cultural exchanges. The argument builds on the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) archive, especially the America Eats project; The FWP was one of the art programs of the New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) and an important part of the liberal state cultural apparatus. Considering the sense …
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Defining ‘Un-Americanism’ in Culture and Art: The Dies Committee’s Investigation of the Federal Theatre Project
… through the body’s 1938 investigation of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP). The committee, then known as the Dies Committee after its chairman Martin Dies (D-TX), publicly presented the hearings as an attempt to root out communism in a deeply compromised government program. And indeed the FTP, …