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    <![CDATA[Black Women's Lives: Stories of Pain and Power]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Kristal Brent Zook explores the lives of contemporary African America women from all walks of life. Based on her travels across America and years of interviewing and building relationships with women from a wide variety of socio-economic backgrounds, she offers vivid archetypal portraits of a school principal in Georgia, a filmmaker in Los Angeles, a factory worker in Mississippi, a corporate executive in New York City, a prisoner in Seattle, and an organic farmer in Vermont, among others.<br/><br/> Through these portraits, <em>Black Women's Lives</em> explores common overlapping themes while highlighting the shared dreams, hopes, and disappointments of ordinary women. This book also reveals the many challenges and inequalities that black women still face, and how far this nation has yet to travel if it is to live up to its promise to create an equal and just society for all citizens.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[I See Black People: The Rise and Fall of African Amercian Owned Television and Radio Minority Owned Television and Radio]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;<em>I See Black People</em> is a narrative history of the behind-the-scenes politics of black television and radio ownership, including the stories of the failure of the Black Famlly Channel, The World African Network, and Russell Simmons Fabulous TV, as well as that of Catherine Hughes, who&#8217;d aggressively acquired radio stations, becoming the first black woman to head a firm that publicly traded on the stock exchange. While securing  its place in the  marketplace, the company is now 20 percent black owned. By offering insights into the failure of public policy that have impeded black access to ownership through the last thirty years, the author explores that current state of black media and questions its direction.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television]]>
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    <![CDATA[Following the overwhelming success of &quot;The Cosby Show&quot; in the 1980s, an unprecedented shift took place in television history: white executives turned to black dollars as a way of salvaging network profits lost to videocassettes and cable TV. Not only were African-American viewers watching disproportionately more network television than the general population but, as Nielsen finally realized, they preferred black shows. As a result, African-American producers, writers, directors, and stars were given an unusual degree of creative control over shows such as &quot;The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,&quot; &quot;Roc,&quot; &quot;Living Single,&quot; Martin, and &quot;New York Undercover.&quot;  Locating a persistent black nationalist desire--a yearning for home and community--in shows produced by and for African Americans, Kristal Brent Zook shows how these productions revealed complex and contradictory politics of gender, sexuality, and class. Incorporating interviews with such prominent executives, producers, and stars as Keenen Ivory Wayans, Quincy Jones, Robert Townsend, Charles Dutton, and Yvette Lee Bowser, this study looks at both production and reception among African-American viewers. Zook provides nuanced readings of the shows themselves as well as the political and historical contexts in which they emerged.  Though much of black television during this time was criticized for being &quot;trivial&quot; or &quot;buffoonish,&quot; Color by Fox reveals its deep-rooted ties to African-American protest literature, autobiography, and a collective desire for social transformation.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television]]>
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    <![CDATA[Following the overwhelming success of &quot;The Cosby Show&quot; in the 1980s, an unprecedented shift took place in television history: white executives turned to black dollars as a way of salvaging network profits lost in the war against video cassettes and cable T.V. Not only were African-American  viewers watching disproportionately more network television than the general population but, as Nielsen finally realized, they preferred black shows. As a result, African-American producers, writers, directors, and stars were given an unusual degree of creative control over shows such as &quot;The Fresh  Prince of Bel Air,&quot; &quot;Roc,&quot; &quot;Living Single,&quot; and &quot;New York Undercover&quot;. What emerged were radical representations of African-American memory and experience.      Offering a fascinating examination of the explosion of black television programming in the 1980s and 1990s, this book provides, for the first time ever, an interpretation of black TV based in both journalism and critical theory. Locating a persistent black nationalist desire--a yearning for home  and community--in the shows produced by and for African-Americans in this period, Kristal Brent Zook shows how the Fox hip-hop sitcom both reinforced and rebelled against earlier black sitcoms from the sixties and seventies. Incorporating interviews with such prominent executives, producers, and  stars as Keenen Ivory Wayans, Sinbad, Quincy Jones, Robert Townsend, Charles Dutton, Yvette Lee Bowser, and Ralph Farquhar, this study looks at both production and reception among African-American viewers, providing nuanced readings of the shows themselves as well as the sociopolitical contexts in  which they emerged.      While black TV during this period may seem trivial or buffoonish to some, Color by Fox reveals its deep-rooted ties to African-American protest literature and autobiography, and a desire for social transformation.]]>
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