Ann duCille is Emerita Professor of English at Wesleyan University and author of Skin Trade and The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life  11. What's in a Game? Quiz Shows and the "Prism of Race"  222. "Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear": Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise of Technicolored TV  523. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two  834. Interracial Loving: Sexless in the Suburbs of the 1960s  1125. "A Credit to My Race": Acting Black and Black Acting from Julia to Scandal  1346. A Clear and Present Absence: Perry Mason and the Case of the Missing "Minorities"  1597. "Soaploitation": Getting Away with Murder in Primetime  1838. The Punch and Judge Judy Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day in Court  2099. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Palatability  23210. The "Thug Default": Why Racial Representation Still Matters  261Epilogue. Final Spin: "That's Not My Food"  285Notes  289Bibliography  311Index  325

"Ann duCille offers an eloquent analysis of the relationship between representations of people of color and their absence in television from the 1950s to the present. She skillfully blends her comprehensive, historically grounded research with personal memories and her present connection to television. . . .  Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." - K. Sorensen (Choice) "In her book Technicolored, Ann duCille deftly blends memoir and television criticism to create an important critical intervention into the study of race and media." - Jacqueline Johnson (Film Quarterly) "Technicolored is a beautifully written and deeply engaging text that makes media criticism available in multiple registers. Media critics, Black Studies scholars, those interested in literary experiments that bridge memoir and theory, and all students of culture will learn considerably from duCille’s achievement." - Michael Litwack (The Black Scholar)

Ann duCille is Emerita Professor of English at Wesleyan University and author of Skin Trade and The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life  11. What's in a Game? Quiz Shows and the "Prism of Race"  222. "Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear": Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise of Technicolored TV  523. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two  834. Interracial Loving: Sexless in the Suburbs of the 1960s  1125. "A Credit to My Race": Acting Black and Black Acting from Julia to Scandal  1346. A Clear and Present Absence: Perry Mason and the Case of the Missing "Minorities"  1597. "Soaploitation": Getting Away with Murder in Primetime  1838. The Punch and Judge Judy Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day in Court  2099. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Palatability  23210. The "Thug Default": Why Racial Representation Still Matters  261Epilogue. Final Spin: "That's Not My Food"  285Notes  289Bibliography  311Index  325

"Ann duCille offers an eloquent analysis of the relationship between representations of people of color and their absence in television from the 1950s to the present. She skillfully blends her comprehensive, historically grounded research with personal memories and her present connection to television. . . .  Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." - K. Sorensen (Choice) "In her book Technicolored, Ann duCille deftly blends memoir and television criticism to create an important critical intervention into the study of race and media." - Jacqueline Johnson (Film Quarterly) "Technicolored is a beautifully written and deeply engaging text that makes media criticism available in multiple registers. Media critics, Black Studies scholars, those interested in literary experiments that bridge memoir and theory, and all students of culture will learn considerably from duCille’s achievement." - Michael Litwack (The Black Scholar)

Ann duCille is Emerita Professor of English at Wesleyan University and author of Skin Trade and The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life  11. What's in a Game? Quiz Shows and the "Prism of Race"  222. "Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear": Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise of Technicolored TV  523. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two  834. Interracial Loving: Sexless in the Suburbs of the 1960s  1125. "A Credit to My Race": Acting Black and Black Acting from Julia to Scandal  1346. A Clear and Present Absence: Perry Mason and the Case of the Missing "Minorities"  1597. "Soaploitation": Getting Away with Murder in Primetime  1838. The Punch and Judge Judy Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day in Court  2099. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Palatability  23210. The "Thug Default": Why Racial Representation Still Matters  261Epilogue. Final Spin: "That's Not My Food"  285Notes  289Bibliography  311Index  325

"Ann duCille offers an eloquent analysis of the relationship between representations of people of color and their absence in television from the 1950s to the present. She skillfully blends her comprehensive, historically grounded research with personal memories and her present connection to television. . . .  Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." - K. Sorensen (Choice) "In her book Technicolored, Ann duCille deftly blends memoir and television criticism to create an important critical intervention into the study of race and media." - Jacqueline Johnson (Film Quarterly) "Technicolored is a beautifully written and deeply engaging text that makes media criticism available in multiple registers. Media critics, Black Studies scholars, those interested in literary experiments that bridge memoir and theory, and all students of culture will learn considerably from duCille’s achievement." - Michael Litwack (The Black Scholar)