Lone Ranger and Tonto

From: "Michael Fitzgerald" <[email protected]>

This is kind of interesting: I have a book (a revised version of my doctoral
thesis) on American Indian representations on US television coming out in
2014 year on Scarecrow Press, thanks to Cynthia Miller. It begins, of
course, with the Lone Ranger and Tonto. Classic Media, the current owners of
the screen images, would not grant me permission to use pictures from the
series in my book because, they said, my chapter paints the Ranger in a bad
light. I suppose it does: I made a pretty solid case that the series
glorified Anglo-Saxon world domination and that its creator, George Trendle,
was steeped in racist ideology. An version of the chapter appears in the
February issue of Journal of Popular Culture. Would be interested in
comments. Thanks, Michael Ray Fitzgerald, Jacksonville (Fla.) University.
michaelrayfitzgerald.com