Providing new insight into key debates over race and representation in the media, this ethnographic study explores the ways in which African Americans have been

Essays by Dominic Molon and Michael Rooks. Excerpt by David Sedaris. Foreward by Judith Richards.

If you've watched TV in the last 50 years, you already love Bill Persky. He discovered Goldie Hawn, gave Kelsey Grammer his first television job, created the gr

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