Introduction: our regularly scheduled program / David J. Leonard and Lisa A. Guerrero
Consciousness on television: black power and mainstream narratives / David J. Leonard
An interview with John Amos / Tammy Brown
Looking for Lionel: making whiteness and blackness in All in the family and The Jeffersons / Lisa Woolfork
What's your name? Roots, race, and popular memory in post-civil rights America / C. Richard King
More serious than money: on Our gang, Diff'rent strokes, and Webster / Jared Sexton
Post-racial, post civil rights: The Cosby show and the national Imagination / David J. Leonard
A different sort of blackness: a different world in a post Cosby landscape / David J. Leonard
Just another family comedy: The fresh prince of Bel Air, Family matters / Shiron V. Patterson
Single black female: representing the modern black woman in "Living single" / Lisa A. Guerrero
The black family in the new millennium: Bernie Mac, My wife and kids, and Everybody hates Chris / Qiana M. Cutts
Blackness and children's programming: Sesame Street, A.N.T. Farm and The LeBrons / David J. Leonard
"Black" comedy: the serious business of humor in In living color, Chappelle's show, and The Boondocks / Lisa A. Guerrero
Selling blackness: commercials? hip hop athletes hocking products / Regina Bradley
The queen of television: Oprah Winfrey in relation to self and as a cultural icon / Billye N. Rhodes and Kristal Moore Clemons
Tyler Perry takes over TV / Bettina L. Love
B(l)ack in the kitchen: Food Network / Lisa A. Guerrero
Ratchet responsibility: the struggle of representation and black entertainment television / Kristen J. Warner
White authorship and the counterfeit politics of versimilitude on The wire / MichaelJohnson
Representations of representation: urban life and media in season five of The wire / Bhoomi K. Thakore
La-La's fundamental rupture: True blood's Lafayette and the deconstruction of normal / Kaila Adia Story
Can the black woman shout?: a meditation on "Real" and utopian depictions of African American women on television / Rebecca Wanzo
Scandal and black women in television / Kwakiutl L. Dreher
Get a crew and make it happen: misadventures of awkward black girl and new media's potential for self-definition / Phillip Lamarr Cunningham
Performing "blackness": Barack Obama, sport, and the mediated politics of identity / Michael D. Giardina and Kyle S. Bunds
"New normal" in American television? race, gender, blackness, and the new racism / Paula Groves Price.