Introduction / Robin R. Means Coleman
"Keepin' it real" and/or "selling' out to the man" : African-American responses to Aaron McGruder's The boondocks / Nancy C. Cornwell and Mark P. Orbe
Black audiences, past and present : commonsense media critics and activists / Catherine Squires
Media messages, self-identity, and race relations : reader evaluations of newsmagazine coverage of the Million Man March / Debbie A. Owens
House Negro versus field Negro : the inscribed image of race in the television news representations of African-American identity / Jennifer F. Wood
DMX, Cosby, and two sides of the American dream / Chyng F. Sun, Leda Cooks, Corey Rinehart, and Stacy A.S. Williams
"It's just like teaching people 'do the right things'" : using TV to become a good and powerful man / JoEllen Fisherkeller
The Cosby show : the view from the Black middle class / Leslie B. Inniss and Joe R. Feagin
The color purple : black women as cultural readers / Jacqueline Bobo
"America's worst nightmare" : reading the ghetto in a culturally diverse context / Celeste A. Fisher
The Menace II Society copycat murder case and thug life : a reception study with a convicted criminal / Robin R. Means Coleman.