Color by Fox The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television

Name: Color by Fox The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television
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ISBN: 9780195105483

ISBN-10: 0195105486

ISBN-13: 9780195105483

Edition: 1999

Authors: Kristal Brent Zook

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Locating a persistent black nationalist desire - yearning for home and community - in the shows produced in the 1980s and 1990s, Zook shows how the Fox hip-hop sitcom both reinforced and rebelled against earlier black sitcoms from the 1960s and 1970s.

Book details

List price: $120.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/13/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.31" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Color and Caste



Blood Is Thicker than Mud: C-Note Goes to Compton on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air



High Yella Bananas and Hair Weaves: The Sinbad Show



Ralph Farquhar's South Central and Pearl's Place to Play: Why They Failed Before Moesha Hit



Gender and Sexuality



Sheneneh, Gender-Fuck, and Romance: Martin's Thin Line Between Love and Hate



Living Single and the "Fight for Mr. Right": Latifah Don't Play



Social Movement



Under the Sign of Malcolm: Memory, Feminism, and Political Activism on Roc



Boricua Power in the Boogie-Down Bronx: Puerto Rican Nationalism on New York Undercover


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index