"Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view
of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of
blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the
circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized
discourses--including industry lore, taste cultures, and the
multiple stories of black experiences that have and have not made
it onto the small screen--Havens complicates discussions of racial
representation and exposes possibilities for more expansive
representations of blackness while recognizing the limitations of
the seemingly liberatory spaces created by globalization." --Bambi
Haggins, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Arizona
State University "A major achievement that makes important
contributions to the analysis of race, identity, global media,
nation, and television production cultures. Discussions of race and
television are too often constricted within national boundaries,
yet this fantastic book offers a strong, compelling, and utterly
refreshing corrective. Read it, assign it, use it." --Jonathan
Gray, author of Television Entertainment, Television Studies, and
Show Sold SeparatelyBlack Television Travels explores the
globalization of African American television and the way in which
foreign markets, programming strategies, and viewer preferences
have influenced portrayals of African Americans on the small
screen. Television executives have been notoriously slow to
recognize the potential popularity of black characters and themes,
both at home and abroad. As American television brokers
increasingly seek revenues abroad, their assumptions about
saleability and audience perceptions directly influence the global
circulation of these programs, as well as their content. Black
Television Travels aims to reclaim the history of African American
television circulation in an effort to correct and counteract this
predominant industry lore.Based on interviews with television
executives and programmers from around the world, as well as
producers in the United States, Havens traces the shift from an era
when national television networks often blocked African American
television from traveling abroad to the transnational, post-network
era of today. While globalization has helped to expand diversity in
African American television, particularly in regard to genre, it
has also resulted in restrictions, such as in the limited portrayal
of African American women in favor of attracting young male
demographics across racial and national boundaries. Havens
underscores the importance of examining boardroom politics as part
of racial discourse in the late modern era, when transnational
cultural industries like television are the primary sources for
dominant representations of blackness.Timothy Havensis an Associate
Professor of television and media studies in the Department of
Communication Studies, the Program in African American Studies, and
the Program in International Studies at the University of Iowa.In
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