12 I’m Digging You Television’s Turn to Dirty South Blackness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction: I Still See Black People . . . Everywhere 1
5. Part I Historicizing Black
6. 1 Audiences and the Televisual Slavery-Narrative 15
7. 2 History, Trauma, and Healing in Ava DuVernay’s 13th and When They See Us 27
8. 3 Thinking about Watchmen with Jonathan W. Gray, Rebecca A. Wanzo, and Kristen Warner 41
9. 4 From Sitcom Girl to Drama Queen: Soul Food’s Showrunner Examines Her Role in Creating TV’s First Successful Black-Themed Drama 57
10. Part II Attending Black
11. 5 Gaming as Trayvon #BlackLivesMatter Machinima and the Queer Metagames of Black Death 77
12. 6 “Trying to Find Relief” Seeing Black Women through the Lens of Mental Health and Wellness in Being Mary Jane and Insecure 91
13. 7 On Air Black: The Breakfast Club, Visual Radio, and Spreadable Media 106
14. Part III Monetizing Black
15. 8 Black Women, Audiences, and the Queer Possibilities of the Black-Cast Melodrama 123
16. 9 In a ’90s Kind of World, I’m Glad I Got My Shows! Digital Streaming and Black Nostalgia 137
17. 10 Tyler Perry’s Too Close to Home: Black Audiences in the Post-Network Era 150
18. Part IV Feeling Black
19. 11 “I’m Trying to Make People Feel Black” Affective Authenticity in Atlanta 169
20. 12 I’m Digging You Television’s Turn to Dirty South Blackness 185
21. 13 I Feel Conflicted as F*ck: Netflix’s Dear White People and Re-presenting Black Viewing Communities 201
22. Notes on Contributors 215
23. Index 221