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.
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