Starring Mandela and Cosby

Krabill, Ron.

Starring Mandela and Cosby media and the end(s) of apartheid / [electronic resource] : Ron Krabill. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010. - xiv, 199 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Media, democratization, and the end(s) of apartheid -- Structured absences and communicative spaces -- In the absence of television -- "They stayed til the flag streamed" -- Surfing into Zulu -- Living with the Huxtables in a state of emergency -- I may not be a freedom fighter, but I play one on TV -- Television and the afterlife of apartheid.


Electronic reproduction.
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Cosby show (Television program : 1984-1992)--Influence.


Television broadcasting--Social aspects--History--South Africa--20th century.
Television and politics--History--South Africa--20th century.
Television viewers--Attitudes--History--South Africa--20th century.
Whites--Attitudes--History--South Africa--20th century.
Mass media and race relations--History--South Africa--20th century.
Apartheid--South Africa.


South Africa--Race relations--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

PN1992.3.S57 / K73 2010eb

302.2/3450968