Color by Fox : the Fox Network and the revolution in black television / Kristal Brent Zook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zook, Kristal Brent, author.

Contributor:

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, contributor.

Series:

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.

Oxford scholarship online.

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans on television.

African Americans in television broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Locating a persistent black nationalist desire - yearning for home and community - in the shows produced in the 1980s and 1990s, Zook shows how the Fox hip-hop sitcom both reinforced and rebelled against earlier black sitcoms from the 1960s and 1970s.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Color and Caste; 1: Blood Is Thicker than Mud: C-Note Goes to Compton on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air; 2: High Yella Bananas and Hair Weaves: The Sinbad Show; 3: Ralph Farquhar's South Central and Pearl's Place to Play: Why They Failed Before Moesha Hit; Part 2: Gender and Sexuality; 4: Sheneneh, Gender-Fuck, and Romance: Martin's Thin Line Between Love and Hate; 5: Living Single and the ""Fight for Mr. Right"": Latifah Don't Play; Part 3: Social Movement; 6: Under the Sign of Malcolm: Memory, Feminism, and Political Activism

7: Boricua Power in the Boogie-Down Bronx: Puerto Rican Nationalism on New York Undercover Conclusion; Notes; References; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772349-7

1-280-53377-3

0-19-535565-2

OCLC:

252605331

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08288 hdl