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Living Color - Race and Television in the United States (Paperback)
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Living Color - Race and Television in the United States (Paperback)
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Recent media events like the confirmation hearings for Clarence
Thomas, the beating of Rodney King and its aftermath, and the
murder trial of O.J. Simpson have trained our collective eye on the
televised spectacle of race. Living Color combines media studies,
cultural studies, and critical race theory to investigate the
representation of race on American TV. Ranging across television
genres, historical periods, and racial formations, Living Color-as
it positions race as a key element of television's cultural
influence-moves the discussion out of a black-and-white binary and
illustrates how class, gender, and sexuality interact with images
of race. In addition to essays on representations of "Oriental"
performers and African Americans in the early years of television,
this collection also examines how the celebrity of the late MTV
star Pedro Zamora countered racist and homophobic discourses;
reveals how news coverage on drug use shifted from the white
middle-class cocaine user in the early 1980s to the black "crack
mother" of the 1990s; and takes on TV coverage of the Rodney King
beating and the subsequent unrest in Los Angeles. Other essays
consider O.J. Simpson's murder trial, comparing television's
treatment of Simpson to that of Michael Jackson, Magic Johnson,
Michael Jordan, and Clarence Thomas and look at the racism directed
at Asian Americans by the recurring "Dancing Itos" on Jay Leno's
Tonight Show.
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