Acknowledgments
Roopika Risam and Carol Stabile
Reanimate Editors Carol Stabile and Roopika Risam gratefully acknowledge the following collaborators who made Fredi Washington: A Reader in Black Feminist Media Criticism possible:
Laurie Avant Woodard of The City College of New York, for a brilliant introduction to Fredi Washington’s work;
Malia Mulligan and Morning Glory Ritchie of Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, for their assistance with locating missing columns, microfilm borrowing and copying, and proofreading of the reader;
Laura Strait, School of Journalism, University of Oregon, and Bethany Tyler, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, for assistance with preparation of the reader;
Emil Gil, Florida International University, for his work transcribing columns, and Alex Gil, Columbia University, for introducing us to Emil;
Nicole Warner, Salem State University, for her work transcribing columns;
Lydia Guterman, Salem State University, for a heroic proofreading effort of the entire reader;
Terence Smyre, Matt Gold, Zach Davis, and the entire Manifold team, for their visionary work to make Manifold available for scholars — and for their generous assistance while preparing this reader;
Phillip Cunningham, Amanda Lima, and Amber Kinui, Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, for their expertise on the Fredi Washington papers;
The New York Public Library, for rights advice;
The librarians and archivists at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, for their critical work preserving the legacy of Black writers and thinkers — in this case, The People's Voice;
Mt. Holyoke College, for the 1905 Fellowship that supported transcription for the project;
Salem State University, for graduate research assistantships that supported the project; and
Fredi Washington, for her brilliant insights on race, labor, politics, aesthetics, Hollywood, power, war, Broadway, and fascism (all at once!), which are as important today as they were in her time.