The Evolution of Black Women in Television: Mammies, by Imani M. Cheers

By Imani M. Cheers

This publication seeks to interrogate the illustration of Black girls in tv. Cheers explores how the rise of Black ladies in media possession and inventive government roles (producers, showrunners, administrators and writers) within the final 30 years affected the elemental cultural shift in Black women’s illustration on tv, which in flip parallels the political, social, financial and cultural developments of Black ladies in the USA from 1950 to 2016. She additionally examines Black ladies as a various tv viewers, discussing how they have interaction and reply to the continually evolving tv illustration in their snapshot and likeness, having a look particularly at how social media is used as a device of viewers engagement.

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