Living Color
Subtitle: Race and Television in the United States (Console-ing Passions)
Contributors: Sasha Torres (Editor); Sasha Torres (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780822321781
Subjects: Cultural studies; Racism & racial discrimination; Social issues; Television; Performing Arts; Sociology; Race And Ethnic Relations; United States; USA; Television - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Minority Studies - General; Television - History & Criticism; Film & Television Studies; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; Race and Ethnicity; Minorities on television; Social aspects; Television Broadcasting
First sentence: The historical study of the representation of racial difference in popular media can benefit greatly from an attention to specificity: specificity of medium, specificity of historical context, and specificity of representational practices.