Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments The space between when you conceive a project and its fruition can sometimes be a long one. Such is the case with this anthology. I thank the two anonymous readers for their support and critical insights into the workings of the articles and the book as a whole. Your critiques have made the work much stronger. I appreciate my wonderful and patient press editors as well, Leslie Mitchner and Lisa Boyajian, who persevered even when I made their lives admittedly, a bit difficult. Thank you. I thank my Tulane Sistah Circle writing group, Katie Acosta, Rebecca Chaisson, and Nghana Lewis, for their support and encouragement, critique and response. With hectic lives and even more hectic commitments, you find time to share your wisdom and yourselves. For this, I’m very grateful. I thank Bambi Haggins and Deborah Elizabeth Whaley for their constant intellectual support and Oyinlola Longe for her hard work. I thank Timothy Rodriguez for finding stills for the book and India Cooper for her meticulous copyediting. I thank my children and husband for their constant patience with and support of me in doing “mommy’s work,” especially when I’m cranky in the morning after staying up way too late. I especially appreciate my husband’s willingness to continue membership in the honeydo club! Finally, I offer many thanks to all of the smart, engaged and wonderful contributors of this text. I appreciate each of you for not only the hard work and necessary engagement with your chapters but for allowing me to ask, and ask, and ask for more and for giving it back to me with such grace and good spirit. I thank you all for your constant encouragement and for being stalwart in your tasks. In the process of putting this book together, we lost a most generous spirit and guiding force for so many of us, Dr. Teshome Gabriel. While I will never be able to replicate his mastery of touch and the word, I dedicate this book to him to remember and constantly return to the magic that he shared and he was. This page intentionally left blank WATCHING WHILE BLACK This page intentionally left blank ...