Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape

Black women's work in television has been since the beginning a negotiation. <i>Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape</i> explores the steps black women as actors directors and producers have taken to improve representations of black people on the small screen. Beginning with <i>The Beulah Show </i>Anderson articulates the interrelationship between US culture and the televisual demonstrating the conditions under which black women particularly and black people generally exist in popular culture.