Channeling blackness : studies on television and race in America

Abstract

1. Making Sense of Blackness on Television 2. The News Media and the Disorders 3. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse 4. Television and Black Consciousness 5. Television and the Black Audience: Cultivating Moderate Perspectives on Racial Integration 6. White Responses: The Emergence of Enlightened Racism 7. Hearing Anita Hill (and Viewing Bill Cosby) 8. A Myth of Assimilation: Enlightened Racism and the News 9. The Politics of Representation in Network Television 10. Ralph Farquhar's South Central and Pearl's Place to Play: Why They Failed Before Moesha Hit 11. Body and Soul: Physicality, Disciplinarity, and the Overdetermination of Blackness 12. Where My Girls At? Negotiating Black Womanhood in Music Videos 13. The Spectacular Consumption of True African American Culture: Whassup with the Budweiser Guys? 14. In a Crisis We Must Have a Sense of Drama: Civil Rights and Televisual Information 15. Black Content, White Control BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX