Watching while Black : centering the television of Black audiences /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012.
Description:	ix, 267 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	African Americans on television. African American television viewers. Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States. African American television viewers. African Americans on television. Television broadcasting -- Social aspects. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8958973

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Other authors / contributors:	Smith-Shomade, Beretta E., 1965-
ISBN:	9780813553870 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813553873 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813553863 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813553865 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780813553887 (e-book) 0813553881 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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