Watching Race

Television and the Struggle for Blackness

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by Herman Gray

University of Minnesota Press

Due/Published August 2004, 224 pages, paper

ISBN 0816645108

Now with a new introduction (F04)

Gray takes a look at the changing representations of African American on television. Starting with The Jack Benny Show and Amos 'n' Andy, moving through the shows of the late 1980s and the 90s like The Cosby Show and In Living Color, and on to 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.