Primetime Blues African Americans on Network Television

"With this mixture of appreciation and apprehension, Bogle examines African-Americans on television decade by decade, show by show, sometimes episode by episode. He not only measures the shows aesthetically and sociologically, he aims to explain the influence of ratings and Hollywood politics on how blacks have been represented. He also provides brief biographies of many of the dozens of actors whose work he describes. That's a lot of detail, and the book sometimes is dragged down by the voluminosity of its own authority--and by Bogle's lapses into academic jargon. But even if you find his fondness for words like 'contextualize' annoying, and his straight-ahead method numbing at times, his thoroughness and insightful analyses are admirable. This is a valuable chronicle.Bogle, Donald is the author of 'Primetime Blues African Americans on Network Television', published 2002 under ISBN 9780374527181 and ISBN 0374527180.