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The portrayal of African Americans in situation comedies
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The portrayal of African Americans in situation comedies
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Watts
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Caroline
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1979-
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Caroline Watts
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Stuart Z.
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Stuart Z. Charme
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Advisory Committee
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chair
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Glasker
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Wayne
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Wayne Glasker
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co-chair
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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theses
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2015
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2015-05
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xx
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eng
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While one might ordinarily hypothesize that the portrayal of African Americans on television has positively progressed over the years, this study sets out to determine the extent to which the depiction of African Americans has changed. Stereotypical key terms are evaluated and calculated throughout several African-American television programs that were aired before and after The Cosby Show run from 1984 to 1992. This study attempts to examine this phenomenon by determining which attributes were, and are currently, portrayed, along with the frequency of those portrayals. Results of this study showed a slight increase in negative portrayals since the airing of The Cosby Show, and therefore, lead to speculation as to whether there may be a more accurate way to determine additional and more precise findings.
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Liberal Studies
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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electronic resource
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1 online resource (iii, 37 p. : ill.)
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M.A.L.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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African Americans on television
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Comedy programs--United States--History and criticism.
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Television comedies
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by Caroline Watts
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Camden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3416ZW6
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Watts
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Caroline
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2015-05-07 12:57:32
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Caroline Watts
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Rutgers University. Camden Graduate School
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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