| Description |
x, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Keepin' it real" and/or "selling' out to the man" : African-American responses to Aaron McGruder's The boondocks / Nancy C. Cornwell and Mark P. Orbe -- Black audiences, past and present : commonsense media critics and activists / Catherine Squires -- Media messages, self-identity, and race relations : reader evaluations of newsmagazine coverage of the Million Man March / Debbie A. Owens -- House Negro versus field Negro : the inscribed image of race in the television news representations of African-American identity / Jennifer F. Wood -- DMX, Cosby, and two sides of the American dream / Chyng F. Sun ... [et al.] -- "It's just like teaching people 'do the right things'" : using TV to become a good and powerful man / JoEllen Fisherkeller -- Cosby show : the view from the Black middle class / Leslie B. Inniss and Joe R. Feagin -- Color purple : black women as cultural readers / Jacqueline Bobo -- "America's worst nightmare" : reading the ghetto in a culturally diverse context / Celeste A. Fisher -- Menace II Society copycat murder case and thug life : a reception study with a convicted criminal / Robin R. Means Coleman. |
| Subject |
African Americans and mass media.
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Mass media -- Audiences.
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African Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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| Added Author |
Means Coleman, Robin R., 1969-
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| ISBN |
0815337620 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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0815337612 (acid-free paper) |
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