Watching While Black : : Centering the Television of Black Audiences / / ed. by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Acham, Christine,; Burton, Nsenga K.,; Burton, Nsenga,; Cavalcante, Andre M.,; Cavalcante, Andre,; Coleman, Robin Means,; Coleman, Robin R. Means,; Cunningham, Mark D.,; Fuller, Jennifer,; Gates, Racquel,; Gillam, Reighan Alexandra,; Gillam, Reighan,; Havens, Timothy,; Heitner, Devorah,; LeDuff, Kim M.,; Leduff, Kim M.,; Lewis, Nghana,; Pierson, Eric,; Russworm, TreaAndrea M.,; Russworm, Treaandrea M.,; Smith-Shomade, Beretta E.,; Warner, Kristen J.,; Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth,
• HerausgeberIn: Smith-Shomade, Beretta E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 33 photographs

Television scholarship has substantially ignored programming aimed at Black audiences despite a few sweeping histories and critiques. In this volume, the first of its kind, contributors examine the televisual diversity, complexity, and cultural imperatives manifest in programming directed at a Black...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: I See Black People
• PART I. PRODUCING BLACKNESS
• 1. The Importance of Roots
• 2. Two Different Worlds: Television as a Producer’s Medium
• 3. A Black Cast Doesn’t Make a Black Show: City of Angels and the Plausible Deniability of Color-blindness
• 4. Blacks in the Future: Braving the Frontier of the Web Series
• PART II. BLACKNESS ON DEMAND
• 5. “Regular Television Put to Shame by Negro Production”: Picturing a Black World on Black Journal
• 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?: The Impact of Depictions of Post-Katrina New Orleans on Viewers’ Perceptions of the City
• PART III. NEW JACK BLACK
• 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: Reconsidering Established Interpretations of Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality Through Noah’s Arc
• 12. Graphic Blackness/Anime Noir: Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks and the Adult Swim
• PART IV. WORLDWIDE BLACKNESS
• 13. Resistance Televised: The TV da Gente Television Network and Brazilian Racial Politics
• 14. South African Soapies: A “Rainbow Nation” Realized?
• 15. Minority Television Trade as Cultural Journey: The Case of New Zealand’s bro’Town
• Notes on Contributors
• Index