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Article: Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power.(Book Review)
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- Black Issues Book Review
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- March 1, 2005
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Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power
by Christine Acham University of Minnesota Press, October 2004 $24.95, ISBN 0-8166-4431-4
This book explains how Good Times and Sanford and Son can be, alternately, stereotypical African American images and powerful, culturally authentic statements. Acham goes beyond the usual, and all too easy, black-images-in-television narrative. She details how black artists such as Redd Foxx and Esther Rolle fought on and off the soundstage to preserve their cultural integrity while presenting black humor and drama as best they could within network television's confines. Acham, a cultural critic, ...