Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television

Rating:
Summary: A CLASSIC,BUT WITH A FEW FLAWS
Review: PRIMETIME BLUES is an excellent history of African-Americans
on primetime television,from the days of "Beluah" to "The Parkers".Smart,honest,and very,very,very insightful,PRIMETIME
BLUES makes you want to read even more.But if I had to put in
some complaints,it'd be Donald Bogle's political bias.Suggesting
that all Blacks live rough and that any Black show that wants to
show a normal,calm Black family is phony.And at times,PRIMETIME
BLUES comes off a textbook as well.But anyway,buy this book
for excellent coverage of Blacks on your TV screen!

Rating:
Summary: FRESH PRINT
Review: What an excellent, thoughtful study of a worthwhile topic. Bogle is to first writer to acknowledge the shows that are the most influential in the history of African American television. Special credit should go to him for identifying "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" as the one truly groundbreaking show of the last thirty years. Much like that show, this book is thoroughly intelligent and well done from start to finish.