Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television

"Insightful . . . a valuable chronicle," the first comprehensive history of African Americans on network television (New York Times Book Review).

A landmark study by the leading critic of African American film and television, Donald Bogle's Primetime Blues examines the stereotypes, which too often continue to march across the screen today, but also shows the ways in which television has been invigorated by extraordinary black performers, whose presence on the screen has been of great signifi...