African Americans on television : race-ing for ratings
David J. Leonard (Editor), Lisa Guerrero (Editor)
Previous treatments of the history of African Americans in television have largely lacked theoretical analysis of the relationship between representations and social contexts. "African Americans on Television: Race-ing for RatingS" fills the existing void by supplying fundamental history with critical analyses of the racial politics of television, documenting the considerable effect that television has had on popular notions of black identity in America since the inception of television.--Inside front jacket
1 online resource (xiii, 455 pages) : illustrations
9780275995157, 0275995151
862077470
Introduction: our regularly scheduled program / David J. Leonard and Lisa A. Guerrero
Consciousness on television: black power and mainstream narratives / David J. Leonard
An interview with John Amos / Tammy Brown
Looking for Lionel: making whiteness and blackness in All in the family and The Jeffersons / Lisa Woolfork
What's your name? Roots, race, and popular memory in post-civil rights America / C. Richard King
More serious than money: on Our gang, Diff'rent strokes, and Webster / Jared Sexton
Post-racial, post civil rights: The Cosby show and the national Imagination / David J. Leonard
A different sort of blackness: a different world in a post Cosby landscape / David J. Leonard
Just another family comedy: The fresh prince of Bel Air, Family matters / Shiron V. Patterson
Single black female: representing the modern black woman in "Living single" / Lisa A. Guerrero
The black family in the new millennium: Bernie Mac, My wife and kids, and Everybody hates Chris / Qiana M. Cutts
Blackness and children's programming: Sesame Street, A.N.T. Farm and The LeBrons / David J. Leonard
"Black" comedy: the serious business of humor in In living color, Chappelle's show, and The Boondocks / Lisa A. Guerrero
Selling blackness: commercials? hip hop athletes hocking products / Regina Bradley
The queen of television: Oprah Winfrey in relation to self and as a cultural icon / Billye N. Rhodes and Kristal Moore Clemons
Tyler Perry takes over TV / Bettina L. Love
B(l)ack in the kitchen: Food Network / Lisa A. Guerrero
Ratchet responsibility: the struggle of representation and black entertainment television / Kristen J. Warner
White authorship and the counterfeit politics of versimilitude on The wire / MichaelJohnson
Representations of representation: urban life and media in season five of The wire / Bhoomi K. Thakore
La-La's fundamental rupture: True blood's Lafayette and the deconstruction of normal / Kaila Adia Story
Can the black woman shout?: a meditation on "Real" and utopian depictions of African American women on television / Rebecca Wanzo
Scandal and black women in television / Kwakiutl L. Dreher
Get a crew and make it happen: misadventures of awkward black girl and new media's potential for self-definition / Phillip Lamarr Cunningham
Performing "blackness": Barack Obama, sport, and the mediated politics of identity / Michael D. Giardina and Kyle S. Bunds
"New normal" in American television? race, gender, blackness, and the new racism / Paula Groves Price
Includes index