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Vriend, Sharon R. "'My Life in the White World': The European-American Representation of Marian Anderson, 1939-1957," American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, December 1999.
This dissertation explores the manner in which the white world of the twentieth century U.S. represented Marian Anderson from 1939-1957 through four significant events: the 1939 controversy which erupted when the Daughters of the American Revolution and Washington D.C. Board of Education banned Anderson from their concert venues culminating in the “Freedom” concert at the Lincoln Memorial; Anderson’s “autobiography” My Lord, What A Morning! published in 1956; Anderson’s 1957 Asian concert tour; and the “documentary” television show of the tour which Edward R. Murrow produced for domestic and international consumption. The narrative argument is that within the European-American community these events, beginning with the “Freedom” concert and concluding with the “documentary,” connected Anderson with an image of “Americanism,” including a sense of racial harmony and a possibility of African-American success within the existing U.S. social system. Thus creating the irony of a European-American representation of Anderson, an African-American woman, embodying “Americanism” during a time of great African-American protest against the prevailing discriminatory social system.
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