Mass Media and the Black Community: AAAS 2251

InBlack Power TV, Devorah Heitner chronicles the emergence of Black public affairs television starting in 1968. She examines two local shows.

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"Black Woman's Burden" examines the historical endeavors to regulate Black female sexuality and reproduction in the United States through methods of exploitation, control, repression, and coercion. The myth of the "angry Black woman" has been built over generations through clever rhetoric and oppressive social policy.

"The African American male criminal stereotype continues to serve as justification for covert and overt racism in contemporary society. Television, cinema, music, and news coverage frequently depict African American males running from the law, committing crimes, victimizing women, and engaging in other illegal activities.

Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans not through personal relationships but through the images the media show them.

Boys, Boyz, Bois concerns questions of ethics, gender and race in popular American images, national discourse and cultural production by and about black men. The book proposes an ethics of masculinity, as ethnics refers to a system of morality and valuation and as ethics refers to a care of the self and ethical subject formation.

This book examines information reported within the media regarding the interaction between the Black Panther Party and government agents in the Bay Area of California.

Launched in 1980, cable network Black Entertainment Television (BET) has helped make blackness visible and profitable at levels never seen prior in the TV industry. In 2000, BET was sold by founder Robert L. Johnson to media giant Viacom for 2.33 billion dollars. This book explores the legacy of BET.