Black, white, and in color : television and black civil rights / by Sasha Torres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torres, Sasha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans on television.

Television broadcasting of news--United States.

Television broadcasting of news.

African Americans--Press coverage.

History.

United States.

African Americans--Press coverage--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Physical Description:

xii, 140 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2003]

Summary:

"Lucid and accessible in both argument and style, this book offers perhaps the most theoretically sophisticated treatment to date of the historical relationship between the civil rights movement and network television, as well as of the complexities of representations of race in contemporary television. It embraces a wide academic audience, opening a conversation across disciplines that too often fail to take each other's accomplishments into account."--Sharon Willis, University of Rochester

"This book is distinguished by a rare combination of critical acumen and historical insight. Torres is characteristically incisive, presenting an argument that appears both incontrovertibly correct and wholly original."--Phillip Brian Harper, New York University

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-136) and index.

ISBN:

0691016585

0691016577

OCLC:

49698887

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