African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: by Robin R. Means Coleman

By Robin R. Means Coleman

delivering new perception into key debates over race and illustration within the media, this ethnographic learn explores the ways that African americans were depicted in Black state of affairs comedies-from 1950's Beulah to modern sequence like Martin and Living Single.

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