The presence of women and African Americans not simply as viewers, but also as televangelists and station owners in their own right has dramatically changed the

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

Locating a persistent black nationalist desire - yearning for home and community - in the shows produced in the 1980s and 1990s, Zook shows how the Fox hip-hop

First demonstrated in 1928, color television remained little more than a novelty for decades as the industry struggled with the considerable technical, regulato