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The Black Box
Anderson, John | April 16, 2001 issue

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The article focuses on the use of television by black African-Americans to voice their perceptions. The culture critic Donald Bogle doesn't ascribe so much power, or so much intelligence, to the medium he critiques in "Prime time Blues: African Americans on Network Television." But he's certainly cognizant of the power of entertainment to skew one's perception. To no one's surprise, Bill Cosby emerges in Bogle's book as one of the three or four most influential black performers or entrepreneurs in the history of black television.

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AFRICAN Americans; TELEVISION programs; BLACKS & mass media; BOGLE, Donald; PRIMETIME Blues (Book); UNITED States
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