The Future Of Television
July / August, 2009
Since Barack Obama took residence in the White House, a lot of folks think it's a fait accompli that the United States has become, with the election of our first black president, a postracial society. Stop the presses. It just ain't so. Instead of being forward-looking the term recalls the wish for Negro removal, the impetus behind the 19th century movement to send blacks back to Africa and the so-called urban renewal of the 20th century. The fantasy that blackness can somehow be done with, o...
