HATTIE MCDANIEL: BLACK AMBITION, WHITE HOLLYWOOD by Jill Watts - TIME 'The Most Memorable Acceptance Speeches in OscarHistory'

TIME | March 6, 2024

Historian Jill Watts, who wrote the 2007 biography Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood, believes McDaniel’s place in Hollywood has been misunderstood. “She's an artist who's been resisting white domination with performance—up until she becomes involved in white show business,” Watts told Entertainment Weekly last year. “If you watch those performances, she's straitjacketed [by the writing], but she's trying to move her way out of that.”

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