In Black Power TV, Devorah Heitner chronicles the emergence of Black public affairs television starting in 1968. She examines two local shows, New York's Inside

Following the overwhelming success of "The Cosby Show" in the 1980s, an unprecedented shift took place in television history: white executives turned to black d

This book critically analyzes the portrayals of Black women in current reality television. Audiences are presented with a multitude of images of Black women fig

This book examines the representation of blackness on television at the height of the southern civil rights movement and again in the aftermath of the Reagan-Bu

“Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational