Black, White, and in Color: Television and Black Civil Rights

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-Bush years. In the process, it looks carefully at how television's ideological projects with respect to race have supported or conflicted with the industry's incentive to maximize profits or consolidate power.


Sasha Torres examines the complex relations between the television industry and the civil rights movement as a knot of overlapp...