The turn toward an aesthetic of Black excellence on TV reveals a mode of self-fashioning that celebrates neoliberal markers of merit and prestige.
Brandy Monk-Payton
Brandy Monk-Payton is an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University. Her research focuses on the history and theory of African American media representation and cultural production. Her work appears in various edited collections and the journals Communication, Culture & Critique, Film Quarterly, Feminist Media Histories, and The Black Scholar. 
Tele-visionary Blackness
Black folks can call into being an alternative relationship to TV, one that prompts a shift in consciousness and just possibly alters the future.