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A comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the broader social implications of the relationship between race and popular culture as well as race and representation.
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.
Covering a spectrum of genres—comedy, drama, talk shows, television movies, variety shows, and reality television, including shows such as Good Times, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Chappelle's Show—this insightful work traces a cultural genealogy of African Americans in television. Its chronological analysis provides an engaging historical account of how African Americans entered the genre of television and have continued to play a central role in the development of both the medium and the industry. The book also tracks the shift in the significance of African Americans in the television market and industry, and the changing, but enduring, face of stereotypes and racism in American television culture.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Our Regularly Scheduled Program
David J. Leonard and Lisa A. Guerrero
1. Consciousness on Television: Black Power and Mainstream Narratives
David J. Leonard
2. An Interview with John Amos
Tammy L. Brown
3. Looking for Lionel: Making Whiteness and Blackness in All in the Family and The Jeffersons
Lisa Woolfork
4. What's Your Name? Roots, Race, and Popular Memory in Post-Civil Rights America
C. Richard King
5. More Serious than Money: On Our Gang, Diff'rent Strokes, and Webster
Jared Sexton
6. Post-racial, Post-Civil Rights: The Cosby Show and the National Imagination
David J. Leonard
7. A Different Sort of Blackness: A Different World in a Post-Cosby Landscape
David J. Leonard
8. Just Another Family Comedy: Family Matters and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Shiron V. Patterson
9. Single Black Female: Representing the Modern Black Woman in Living Single
Lisa A. Guerrero
10. The Black Family in the New Millennium: The Bernie Mac Show, My Wife and Kids, and Everybody Hates Chris
Qiana M. Cutts
11. Blackness and Children's Programming: Sesame Street, A.N.T. Farm, and The LeBrons
David J. Leonard
12. "Black" Comedy: The Serious Business of Humor in In Living Color, Chappelle's Show, and The Boondocks
Lisa A. Guerrero
13. Selling Blackness: Commercials + Hip-Hop Athletes Hocking Products
Regina N. Bradley
14. The Queen of Television: Oprah Winfrey in Relation to Self and as a Cultural Icon
Billye N. Rhodes and Kristal Moore Clemons
15. Tyler Perry Takes Over TV
Bettina L. Love
16. B(l)ack in the Kitchen: Food Network
Lisa A. Guerrero
17. Ratchet Responsibility: The Struggle of Representation and Black Entertainment Television
Kristen J. Warner
18. White Authorship and the Counterfeit Politics of Verisimilitude on The Wire
Michael Johnson Jr.
19. Representations of Representation: Urban Life and Media in Season Five of The Wire
Bhoomi K. Thakore
20. La-La's Fundamental Rupture: True Blood's Lafayette and the Deconstruction of Normal
Kaila Adia Story
21. Can the Black Woman Shout? A Meditation on "Real" and Utopian Depictions of African American Women on Scripted Television
Rebecca Wanzo
22. Scandal and Black Women in Television
Kwakiutl L. Dreher
23. "Get a Crew...And Make It Happen": The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and New Media's Potential for Self-Definition
Phillip Lamarr Cunningham
24. Performing "Blackness": Barack Obama, Sport, and the Mediated Politics of Identity
Michael D. Giardina and Kyle S. Bunds
Epilogue: "New Normal" in American Television? Race, Gender, Blackness, and the New Racism
Paula Groves Price
About the Editors and Contributors
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