Watching while Black : centering the television of Black audiences /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Smith-Shomade, Beretta E., 1965- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2012] |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I.
- 1. The Importance of Roots
- 2. Two Different Worlds
- 3. A Black Cast Doesn't Make a Black Show
- 4. Blacks in the Future
- Part II.
- 5. "Regular Television Put to Shame by Negro Production"
- 6. "HEY, HEY, HEY!" Bill Cosby's Fat Albert as Psychodynamic Postmodern Play
- 7. Gimme a Break! and the Limits of the Modern Mammy
- 8. Down in the Treme . . . Buck Jumping and Having Fun?
- Part III.
- 9. Keepin' It Reality Television
- 10. Prioritized: The Hip Hop (Re)Construction of Black Womanhood in Girlfriends and The Game
- 11. Nigger, Coon, Boy, Punk, Homo, Faggot, Black Man
- 12. Graphic Blackness/Anime Noir
- Part IV.
- 13. Resistance Televised
- 14. South African Soapies
- 15. Minority Television Trade as Cultural Journey
- Notes on Contributors
- Index