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050 00 $aPN1992.77.C68$bJ4 1992
082 00 $a791.45/72$220
100 1 $aJhally, Sut.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85345285
245 10 $aEnlightened racism :$bThe Cosby Show, audiences, and the myth of the American dream /$cSut Jhally and Justin Lewis.
260 $aBoulder, CO :$bWestview Press,$c1992.
300 $axvii, 152 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCultural studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroducing The Cosby Show -- $tCosby: The Case For -- $tCosby: The Case Against -- $tAsking the Audience -- $tSynopsis of The Cosby Show Episode Shown to Respondents -- $g2.$tTelevision and Reality: How Real Is The Cosby Show? -- $tTalking About Reality -- $tThe Absence and Presence of Class -- $tCosby Contradictions -- $tThe World According to Cosby -- $g3.$tThe Success of Cosby -- $tWhite Viewers and Popularity: The Same and Different -- $t"They're Things That Happen Day by Day" -- $t"It Has That Kind of Airbrushed Quality About It" -- $t"It's Always Family Matters" -- $t"The Cosby Show's Black, and That Fits" -- $tBlack Viewers and Popularity: "Thank You, Dr. Cosby, for Giving Us Back Ourselves" -- $t"When I Look at Them, I Look at Us" -- $t"What Kind of Question Is That for Black Folk?" -- $tLooking on the Bright Side -- $g4.$tBlack Experience: Images, Illusions, and Social Class -- $tBlack Images: The Case of the Disappearing Black Working Class -- $tBlack Reality: The Permanent Underclass and Increasing Poverty -- $tThe Race-Class Nexus -- $tClass and Social Mobility -- $g5.$tClass and the Myth of the American Dream -- $tMisrepresentations and Misconceptions -- $tTelevision and the "American Dream" -- $tClass Consciousness: The View from Above -- $tClass Consciousness: The View from Below -- $tThe Displacement of Class onto Race -- $tStereotyping: The Limits of Conventional Thinking -- $tThe Fictional Creation of a Racially Just Society -- $g6.$tWhite Responses: The Emergence of "Enlightened" Racism -- $tThe Insidious Return of Racism -- $tDefinitions of Black: Color Versus Culture -- $tThe Black and White Cosby Show -- $tNow You See It, Now You Don't -- $tBiology Versus Culture -- $tThe Consequences of Classlessness -- $g7.$tBlack Responses: The Hollow Images of Success -- $tThe Bad News -- $tRace and Class in Black Situation Comedies -- $tPositive Images and the Search for Prosperity -- $tThe Battle for Respect -- $tClinging to the American Dream -- $g8.$tConclusion: Unpopular Messages in an Age of Popularity -- $tAffirming Inaction in White Viewers -- $tRethinking Stereotypes -- $tMoving Beyond the American Dream.
520 1 $a"The Cosby Show needs little introduction to most people familiar with American popular culture. It is a show with immense and universal appeal. Even so, most debates about the significance of the program have failed to take into account one of the more important elements of its success--its viewers. Through a major study of the audiences of The Cosby Show, the authors treat two issues of great social and political importance--how television, America's most widespread cultural form, influences the way we think, and how our society in the post-Civil Rights era thinks about race, our most widespread cultural problem." "This book offers a radical challenge to the conventional wisdom concerning racial stereotyping in the United States and demonstrates how apparently progressive programs like The Cosby Show, despite good intentions, actually help to construct "enlightened" forms of racism. The authors argue that, in the post-Civil Rights era, a new structure of racial beliefs, based on subtle contradictions between attitudes toward race and class, has brought in its wake this new form of racial thought that seems on the surface to exhibit a new tolerance. However, professors Jhally and Lewis find that because Americans cannot think clearly about class, they cannot, after all, think clearly about race." "This groundbreaking book is rooted in an empirical analysis of the reactions to The Cosby Show of a range of ordinary Americans, both black and white. Professors Jhally and Lewis discussed with the different audiences their attitudes toward the program and more generally their understanding and perceptions of issues of race and social class." "Enlightened Racism is a major intervention into the public debate about race and perceptions of race--a debate, in the 1990s, at the heart of American political and public life. This book is indispensable to understanding that debate."--BOOK JACKET.
630 00 $aCosby show (Television program : 1984-1992)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85314400
650 0 $aAfrican Americans on television.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92000577
650 0 $aTelevision broadcasting$zUnited States$xInfluence.
650 0 $aTelevision viewers$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98004416
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xPublic opinion.
650 0 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010105279
700 1 $aLewis, Justin,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88196523
830 0 $aCultural studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92007468
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