04230cam a22003738i 4500999001700000003000800017005001700025007000300042008004100045020003600086020001500122040001800137041000800155043001200163050002500175082002000200245011100220260007600331300003500407504005100442505257000493520024903063650003703312650006003349650003803409650006403447650006103511650006303572700003703635700004203672942001203714946000803726952012203734  c76375d76375BJBSDDR20230410130553.0ta130125s2013    caua     b    001 0 eng    a9780275995140 (acid-free paper)  a0275995143  aDLCbengcDLC  aeng  an-us---14aPN 1992.8bA258 201300a791.45/0899607300aAfrican Americans on television :brace-ing for ratings /cDavid J. Leonard and Lisa A. Guerrero, editors.  aSanta Barbara, California :bPraeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLCc2013  axiii, 455 p. :bill. ;c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction: our regularly scheduled program / David J. Leonard and Lisa A. Guerrero -- Consciousness on television: black power and mainstream narratives / David J. Leonard -- An interview with John Amos / Tammy Brown -- Looking for Lionel: making whiteness and blackness in All in the family and The Jeffersons / Lisa Woolfork -- What's your name? Roots, race, and popular memory in post-civil rights America / C. Richard King -- More serious than money: on Our gang, Diff'rent strokes, and Webster / Jared Sexton -- Post-racial, post civil rights: The Cosby show and the national Imagination / David J. Leonard -- A different sort of blackness: a different world in a post Cosby landscape / David J. Leonard -- Just another family comedy: The fresh prince of Bel Air, Family matters / Shiron V. Patterson -- Single black female: representing the modern black woman in "Living single" / Lisa A. Guerrero -- The black family in the new millennium: Bernie Mac, My wife and kids, and Everybody hates Chris / Qiana M. Cutts -- Blackness and children's programming: Sesame Street, A.N.T. Farm and The LeBrons / David J. Leonard -- "Black" comedy: the serious business of humor in In living color, Chappelle's show, and The Boondocks / Lisa A. Guerrero -- Selling blackness: commercials ? hip hop athletes hocking products / Regina Bradley -- The queen of television: Oprah Winfrey in relation to self and as a cultural icon / Billye N. Rhodes and Kristal Moore Clemons -- Tyler Perry takes over TV / Bettina L. Love -- B(l)ack in the kitchen: Food Network / Lisa A. Guerrero -- Ratchet responsibility: the struggle of representation and black entertainment television / Kristen J. Warner -- White authorship and the counterfeit politics of versimilitude on The wire / MichaelJohnson -- Representations of representation: urban life and media in season five of The wire / Bhoomi K. Thakore -- La-La's fundamental rupture: True blood's Lafayette and the deconstruction of normal / Kaila Adia Story -- Can the black woman shout?: a meditation on "Real" and utopian depictions of African  American women on television / Rebecca Wanzo -- Scandal and black women in television / Kwakiutl L. Dreher -- Get a crew and make it happen: misadventures of awkward black girl and new media's potential for self-definition / Phillip Lamarr Cunningham -- Performing "blackness": Barack Obama, sport, and the mediated politics of identity / Michael D. Giardina and Kyle S. Bunds -- "New normal" in American television? race, gender, blackness, and the new racism / Paula Groves Price.  aA 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. 0aAfrican Americans on television. 0aTelevision broadcastingxSocial aspectszUnited States. 0aTelevisión en política 97888 4aTelevisión xAspectos políticos zEstados Unidos913670 4aTelevisión xAspectos sociales zEstados Unidos913671 0aTelevision broadcastingxPolitical aspectszUnited States.1 aLeonard, David J.eeditor9106501 aGuerrero, Lisad1964-eeditora910652  2lcccBK  ilmm  001040708HUaBJBbBJBcHUd2023-04-10l0oPN 1992.8 A258 2013p00000117476r2018-10-25 00:00:00t1w2018-10-25yBK