Examines the cultural politics of television and race. In the late 1980s and early 1990s television representations of African Americans exploded on the small screen. Why has this occurred, and what relation do these shows have to society's idea of "blackness"? How do these shows relate to earlier television series featuring African Americans? Herman Gray's Watching Race -- now available in paperback for the first time -- offers a new look at the changing representations of African Americans on television. Starting with the ...
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Examines the cultural politics of television and race. In the late 1980s and early 1990s television representations of African Americans exploded on the small screen. Why has this occurred, and what relation do these shows have to society's idea of "blackness"? How do these shows relate to earlier television series featuring African Americans? Herman Gray's Watching Race -- now available in paperback for the first time -- offers a new look at the changing representations of African Americans on television. Starting with the portrayal of blacks on series such as The Jack Benny Show and Amos 'n' Andy, Gray details the ongoing dialogue between television representations and cultural discourse to show how the meaning of blackness has changed through the years of the TV era. Drawing on analyses of The Cosby Show, Frank's Place, In Living Color, and Roc, as well as music videos, news coverage, and advertising, Watching Race examines how the political stakes, cultural perspectives, and social locations of key cultural and social formations influence the representation of "blackness" in television. "Absorbing.... Offers incisive analysis of the important, often fierce battles being waged in the black-and-white representational landscape of commercial television". Patricia Williams
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Minneapolis. 1995. University Of Minnesota Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0816622507. 202 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Diane Gleba Hall. keywords: TV Sociology African American Television. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Bill Cosby, George Jefferson, Sinbad, Rochester-all of these television characters have been part of an ongoing struggle for representations of ‘blackness' in the media's cultural productions. What they represent, and how these depictions reflect and transform society's idea of ‘blackness, ' are the subjects of Herman Gray's WATCHING RACE. Gray's detailed and thorough analyses reveal that series or characters often perceived as ‘safe' or ‘stereotypical' ore also catalysts for sitcoms that demonstrate knowledge of the variety of African American experience. For example, Gray illustrates how The Cosby Show-typically seen as a series designed in the Reagan era to make whites comfortable and to cater to neoconservatives within the African American community-actually enabled productions like Frank's Place, a show distinguished by its portrayals of African Americans in New Orleans. Including recent series like A Different World, In Living Color, Saturday Night Live, and Roc, as well as critiques of news media and political campaigns. WATCHING RACE describes how the many dimensions of a production transform the popular culture that designs and watches it. inventory #21706.