Starring Mandela and Cosby

Description:

During the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa was " The Cosby Show". Why did people living under a system built on the idea that Black people were inferior and threatening flock to a show that portrayed African Americans as comfortably mainstream? The South African government maintained a ban on television until 1976. Weaving together South Africa's political history and a social history of television, Ron Krabill challenges conventional understandings of globalization, offering up new insights into the relationship between politics and the media.--[book cover].

subjects: History,  Attitudes,  Race relations,  Social aspects of Television broadcasting,  Cosby show (Television program : 1984-1992),  Whites,  Apartheid,  Influence,  Television broadcasting,  Mass media and race relations,  Television viewers,  Television and politics,  Television programs,  Television broadcasting, social aspects,  Television broadcasting, africa,  Whites, history,  Mass media, south africa,  South africa, race relations,  Political science, africa,  White people,  Social aspects

Places: South Africa

Times: 20th century