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vii Contents Acknowledgments — ix Introduction: I See Black People beretta e. smith-shomade — 1 Part I Producing Blackness 1 The Importance of Roots eric pierson — 19 2 Two Different Worlds: Television as a Producer’s Medium robin r. means coleman and andre m. cavalcante — 33 3 A Black Cast Doesn’t Make a Black Show: City of Angels and the Plausible Deniability of Color-blindness kristen j. warner — 49 4 Blacks in the Future: Braving the Frontier of the Web Series christine acham — 63 Part II Blackness on Demand 5 “Regular Television Put to Shame by Negro Production”: Picturing a Black World on Black Journal devorah heitner — 77 6 “HEY, HEY, HEY!” Bill Cosby’s Fat Albert as Psychodynamic Postmodern Play treaandrea m. russworm — 89 7 Gimme a Break! and the Limits of the Modern Mammy jennifer fuller — 105 8 Down in the Treme . . . Buck Jumping and Having Fun?: The Impact of Depictions of Post-Katrina New Orleans on Viewers’ Perceptions of the City kim m. leduff — 121 Part III New Jack Black 9 Keepin’ It Reality Television racquel gates — 141 10 Prioritized: The Hip Hop (Re)Construction of Black Womanhood in Girlfriends and The Game nghana lewis — 157 11 Nigger, Coon, Boy, Punk, Homo, Faggot, Black Man: Reconsidering Established Interpretations of Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality Through Noah’s Arc mark d. cunningham — 172 12 Graphic Blackness/Anime Noir: Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks and the Adult Swim deborah elizabeth whaley — 187 Part IV Worldwide Blackness 13 Resistance Televised: The TV da Gente Television Network and Brazilian Racial Politics reighan alexandra gillam — 207 14 South African Soapies: A “Rainbow Nation” Realized? nsenga k. burton — 220 15 Minority Television Trade as Cultural Journey: The Case of New Zealand’s bro’Town timothy havens — 232 Notes on Contributors — 247 Index — 251 contents viii ...

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