Starring Mandela and Cosby
Ron Krabill · 2010
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During the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa was " The Cosby Show". Why did people living under a system built on the idea that Black people were inferior and threatening flock to a show that portrayed African Americans as comfortably mainstream? The South African government maintained a ban on television until 1976. Weaving together South Africa's political history and a social history of television, Ron Krabill challenges conventional understandings of globalization, offering up new insights into the relationship between politics and the media.--[book cover].
Book details
- Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 199
- ISBN
- 9780226451886
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