Blackness has always played a central role in the American imagination. Therefore, it should not be surprising that popular television--a medium that grew up with the Civil Rights Movement--has featured blackness as both a foil and a key narrative theme throughout its sixty-year existence. Ironically, in modern "colorblind" times, we are faced with a unique turn of events--blackness is actually over-represented in television sitcoms and dramas.
Author: Darnell M. Hunt (ed.) · Original publisher: Oxford University Press (New York), 2005 (paperback ISBN 9780195167627)
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