Introduction -- Professionalizing and palatable "blackness" -- Branding and marketing "blackness" -- From stumbling block to stepping stone -- Owning the "ghetto" shows -- Rules of engagement: the politics of race, gender, and sexuality -- Barack and Michelle Obama as signs of progress and threat -- Concluding remarks.
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