Introduction: The Hustle
1 Approaching Tandem Productions
2 Sanford and Son
3 Good Times
4 The Jeffersons
Conclusion: A Piece of the Pie
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ADRIEN SEBRO is an assistant professor of media studies
at the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in critical
media studies at the intersections of comedy, gender, and Black
popular culture.
"Adrien Sebro's fascinating and instructive look at these series
will force industry stakeholders to see and pursue them anew."
*editor of Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black
Audiences*
“This is what the next generation of scholarship on critical black
television and media studies look like—original, probing, curious,
courageous, confident. By taking on complex questions of Black
family life, social class, passing and Black difference, and the
role of Black women, Scratchin’ and Survivin’ reframes the radical
nature of the meanings, impacts, and struggles over representation
and production.”
*author of Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of
Representation*
"In Scratchin’ and Survivin’, Adrien Sebro pays close
attention to and honors the often-invisible labor of Black
culture industries workers. Using the framework of 'hustle
economics,' Sebro uncovers a treasure trove of hidden and archival
transcripts that give voice to Black-cast sitcom stars like Redd
Foxx and Esther Rolle as more than talented actors, but Black
Americans working in Hollywood trying to get, as The
Jeffersons’ theme song says, their 'piece of the
pie'.”
*author of The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast
Sitcom*
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