TY - BOOK AU - Havens,Timothy ED - Project Muse. TI - Black television travels: African American media around the globe T2 - Critical cultural communication SN - 9780814759448 AV - PN1992.8.A34 H38 2013 U1 - 791.45/08996073 23 PY - 2013///] CY - London PB - New York University Press KW - Foreign television programs KW - History and criticism KW - Television programs KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - African Americans on television KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index; Introduction: African American television trade -- Roots and the perils of African American television drama in a global world -- Integrated eighties situation comedies and the struggle against apartheid -- The Cosby show, family themes, and the ascent of white situation comedies abroad in the late 1980s -- The Fresh prince of Bel-Air, channel fragmentation, and the recognition of difference -- The worldwide circulation of contemporary African American television -- Black television from elsewhere: the globalization of non-U.S. Black television -- Conclusion: transnational televisual aesthetics and global discourses of race UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814759448/ ER -