New Brunswick, N.J. London : Rutgers University Press, c2012.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: I see black people / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade — Producing blackness. The importance of Roots / Eric Pierson — Two different worlds: television as a producer’s medium / Robin R. Means Coleman and Andre M. Cavalcante — A black cast doesn’t make a black show: City of angels and the plausible deniability of colorblindness / Kristen J. Warner — Blacks in the future: braving the frontier of the web series / Christine Acham — Blackness on demand. Regular television put to shame by negro production : picturing a black world on Black journal / Devorah Heitner — Hey, hey hey! : Bill Cosby’s Fat Albert as psychodynamic postmodern play / TreaAndrea M. Russworm — Gimme a break! and the limits of the modern mammy / Jennifer Fuller — Down in the Treme– buck jumping and having fun?: the impact of depictions of post-Katrina New Orleans on viewers’ perceptions of the city / Kim M. LeDuff — New Jack Black. Keepin’ it reality television / Racquel Gates — Prioritized: the hip hop (re)construction of black womanhood in Girlfriends and The game / Nghana Lewis — Nigger, coon, boy, homo, faggot, black man: reconsidering established interpretations of masculinity, race and sexuality through Noah’s arc / Mark D. Cunningham — Graphic blackness/anime noir: Aaron McGruder’s The boondocks and the Adult Swim / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley — Worldwide blackness. Resistance televised: the TV da Gente Television Network and Brazilian racial politics / Reighan Alexandra Gillam — South African soapies: a rainbow nation realized? / Nsenga K. Burton — Minority television trade as cultural journey: the case of New Zealand’s bro’Town / Timothy Havens.

Subjects:

• African Americans on television.
• African American television viewers.
• Television broadcasting — Social aspects — United States.

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