Channeling blackness : studies on television and race in America /
edited by Darnell M. Hunt.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- ix, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Media and African Americans .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making sense of blackness on television / news media and the disorders : Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders -- Encoding and decoding in the television discourse / Television and black consciousness / Television and the black audience : cultivating moderate perspectives on racial integration / White responses : the emergence of "enlightened" racism / Hearing Anita Hill (and viewing Bill Cosby) / myth of assimilation : "enlightened" racism and the news / politics of representation in network television / Ralph Farquhar's South Central and Pearl's place to play : why they failed before Moesha hit / Body and soul : physicality, disciplinarity, and the overdetermination of blackness / "Where my girls at?" : negotiating black womanhood in music videos / spectacular consumption of "true" African American culture : "whassup" with the Budweiser guys? / "In a crisis we must have a sense of drama" : civil rights and televisual information / Black content, white control / Darnell M. Hunt -- Stuart Hall -- Molefi Kete Asante -- Paula W. Matabane -- Sut Jhally, Justin Lewis -- John Fiske -- Christopher P. Campbell -- Herman Gray -- Kristal Brent Zook -- C. Richard King, Charles Fruehling Springwood -- Rana A. Emerson -- Eric King Watts, Mark P. Orbe -- Sasha Torres -- Darnell M. Hunt. The A The The