African Americans on television : race-ing for ratings

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African Americans on television : race-ing for ratings

David J. Leonard and Lisa A. Guerrero, editors

Praeger, c2013

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Includes index

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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.

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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 Index

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