american institute television revolution

books:

Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute)

5 reviews
Kristal Brent Zook

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Race and Media: the Real Deal
This is a seriously important book. Zook makes a strong claim for the appeal of such Black-produced shows like In Living Color, Roc, South Central, The Fresh Prince of Bell Air, Living Single, Martin, and New York Undercover to a largely Black audience. Zook argues and illustrates how these shows were built off a Black autobiographical tradition of Black writers, producers, and actors. As I ...

Black Women's Lives: Stories of Pain and Power

2 reviews
Kristal Zook

Nation Books, 2006

A real look at the real lives of diverse black women
This highly readable book looks at the real lives of a diverse group of black women. It gives you a clear and vivid sense of their achievements, struggles, and losses. It is written in very clear, direct prose with quotations and vivid descriptions of the women in their own element. She enhances her feature-story approach with researched data and information pertinent to the issue at the heart of ...

I See Black People: The Rise and Fall of African American-Owned Television and Radio
Kristal Brent Zook

Nation Books, 2008

Why are so few radio and television stations currently owned by African Americans? The airwaves are public resources; they belong to the people. And yet minorities, who form 33 percent of the population, control only 3 percent of the broadcast media. African Americans own less than 1 percent of all television station in the country. How did we reach this point? In I See Black People, journalist Kristal Brent Zook talks with the people who ...