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Primetime blues : African Americans on network television / Donald Bogle.
LIBRA PN1992.8.A34 B64 2001
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Van Pelt Library PN1992.8.A34 B64 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bogle, Donald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans on television.
- Genre:
- Olin Library Black authors.
- Physical Description:
- 520 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
- Summary:
- The author examines the role of African Americans on television from the postwar era of Amos 'n' Andy and Beulah to ER and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
- Contents:
- The 1950s: scraps
- The 1960's: social symbols
- The 1970's: jokesters
- The 1980s: superstars
- The 1990s: free-for-alls.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-489) and index.
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation, Winner, 2002
- ISBN:
- 0374237204
- 9780374237202
- OCLC:
- 44090619
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