Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: African American Television Trade
1. Roots and the Perils of African American Television
Drama in a Global World
2. Integrated Eighties Situation Comedies and the
Struggle against Apartheid
3. The Cosby Show, Family Themes, and the Ascent of
White Situation Comedies Abroad in the Late 1980s
4. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Channel Fragmentation,
and the Recognition of Difference
5. The Worldwide Circulation of Contemporary
African American Television
6. Black Television from Elsewhere: The Globalization
of Non-U.S. Black Television
Conclusion: Transnational Televisual Aesthetics and
Global Discourses of Race
Notes
References
Index
About the Author