Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power

By Christine Acham

Book Overview

Offers a complex reading of African Americans appearing on television in the 1960s and 1970s, finding within these programs opposition to white construction of African-American identity and the potential of television to effect social change and limitations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816644314
• ISBN13: 9780816644315
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Cool Book

Props to the Author for Bringing to Light Black Images & the battle on Network tv then & Now. I Love Sanford & Son & to this day ain't nothing on touching it for my eye balls. I miss Tv challgeing people to think & reflect. Major Tv networks have not done right by Black People on the Tv Tube since back in the day.everything has Been recycled or watered down.glad this Book came out & put it there. RIP to Redd Foxx,Esther Rolle & Richard Pryor.