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Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences, and the Myth of the American Dream

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Table of contents
Contents
List of Tables xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Introducing The Cosby Show 1
Cosby: The Case For , 3
Cosby: The Case Against , 6
Asking the Audience , 8
Synopsis of The Cosby Show Episode Shown
to Respondents , 12
2 Television and Reality: How Real Is The Cosby Show? 15
Talking About Reality , 17
The Absence and Presence of Class , 23
Cosby Contradictions , 27
The World According to Cosby , 30
3 The Success of Cosby 35
White Viewers and Popularity: The Same and Different , 36
"They're Things That Happen Day by Day," 38
"It Has That Kind of Airbrushed Quality About It," 41
"It's Always Family Matters," 43
"The Cosby Show's Black, and That Fits," 46
Black Viewers and Popularity: "Thank You, Dr. Cosby,
for Giving Us Back Ourselves," 48
"When I Look at Them, I Look at Us," 50
"What Kind of Question Is That for Black Folk?" 53
Looking on the Bright Side , 56
4 Black Experience: Images, Illusions, and Social Class 57
Black Images: The Case of the Disappearing Black Working Class , 58
Black Reality: The Permanent Underclass and
Increasing Poverty , 61
The Race-Class Nexus , 64
Class and Social Mobility , 68
5 Class and the Myth of the American Dream 71
Misrepresentations and Misconceptions , 71
Television and the "American Dream," 72
Class Consciousness: The View from Above , 75
Class Consciousness: The View from Below , 78
The Displacement of Class onto Race , 81
Stereotyping: The Limits of Conventional Thinking , 83
The Fictional Creation of a Racially Just Society , 86
6 White Responses: The Emergence of "Enlightened" Racism 93
The Insidious Return of Racism , 93
Definitions of Black: Color Versus Culture , 95
The Black and White Cosby Show , 98
Now You See It, Now You Don't , 101
Biology Versus Culture , 108
The Consequences of Classlessness , 109
7 Black Responses: The Hollow Images of Success 113
The Bad News , 113
Race and Class in Black Situation Comedies , 117
Positive Images and the Search for Prosperity , 121
The Battle for Respect , 124
Clinging to the American Dream , 127
8 Conclusion: Unpopular Messages in an Age of Popularity 131
Affirming Inaction in White Viewers , 135
Rethinking Stereotypes , 138
Moving Beyond the American Dream , 139
References 145
About the Book and Authors 147
Index 149
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