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""Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses - including industry lore, taste cultures, and the multiple stories of black experiences that have and have not made it onto the small screen - Havens complicates discussions of racial representation and exposes possibilities for more expansive representations of blackness while recognizing the limitations of the seemingly liberatory spaces created by globalization."" - Bambi Haggins, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University ""A major achievement that makes important contributions to the analysis of race, identity, global media, nation, and television production cultures. Discussions of race and television are too often constricted within national boundaries, yet this fantastic book offers a strong, compelling, and utterly refreshing corrective. Read it, assign it, use it."" - Jonathan Gray, author of Television Entertainment, Television Studies, and Show Sold Separately

Global Black Television is a major achievement that makes important contributions to theanalysis of race, identity, global media, nation, and television production cultures. Discussions of race and television are too often constricted within national boundaries, yet this fantastic bookoffers a strong, compelling, and utterly refreshing corrective. Read it, assign it, use it.-Jonathan Gray, author of Television Entertainment , Television Studies , and Show Sold Separately

"""Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses - including industry lore, taste cultures, and the multiple stories of black experiences that have and have not made it onto the small screen - Havens complicates discussions of racial representation and exposes possibilities for more expansive representations of blackness while recognizing the limitations of the seemingly liberatory spaces created by globalization."" - Bambi Haggins, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University ""A major achievement that makes important contributions to the analysis of race, identity, global media, nation, and television production cultures. Discussions of race and television are too often constricted within national boundaries, yet this fantastic book offers a strong, compelling, and utterly refreshing corrective. Read it, assign it, use it."" - Jonathan Gray, author of Television Entertainment, Television Studies, and Show Sold Separately"

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Timothy Havens is Professor of Communication Studies, African Americans Studies, and International Studies at the University of Iowa. His books include Black Television Travels, Global Television Marketplace, and, with Amanda D. Lotz, Understanding Media Industries.

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