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Title:

Representations of Black womanhood on television : being Mara Brock Akil / edited by Shauntae Brown White and Kandace L. Harris.

Publisher:

Lexington Booksan imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

x, 202 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Akil, Mara Brock,--1970---Criticism and interpretation.
Women television producers and directors--United States.
African American television producers and directors.
African American women screenwriters.
African American women on television.
African American television producers and directors.
African American women on television.
African American women screenwriters.
Women television producers and directors.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

White, Shauntae Brown, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005122191
Harris, Kandace L., editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2019023967

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: being Mara / Kandace L. Harris -- Representations of black womanhood. "Girlfriends -- there, through thick and thin!": African American female sisterhood and the quest for happiness / Tina M. Harris & Katie D. Scott -- The complex girlfriend: Toni Childs as a hybrid controlling image on Girlfriends / Shavonne R. Shorter -- Real, respectable, or both: respectability on Being Mary Jane through the words of Mara Brock Akil / Natasha R. Howard -- "Girl, you know I got you": the ideology of sisterhood on Being Mary Jane / Shauntae Brown White -- What love is and is not: a critical discourse analysis / Roslyn M. Satchel -- Audience reception/social media interaction. Relating to the game: making meaning among fans / Lisa M. Paulin -- Race, gender, and participatory dynamics: Facebook representations of Being Mary Jane / Mia Moody-Ramirez -- Social TV and stereotypes: the social construction of #beingmaryjane on Twitter / Morgan W. Smalls -- @maraakil: an analysis of Mara's balance of life, family and production on Instagram / Candace P. Parrish -- Afterword: what representations and racial messages television teaches our children / Ronald L. Jackson, II.

ISBN:

149859266X
9781498592666

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1100427021

LCCN:

2019019932

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)