Foreword Herman Gray Introduction: I Still See Black People.Everywhere Beretta E. Smith-Shomade Part I: Historicizing Black Chapter 1: Audiences and the Televisual Slavery-Narrative Eric Pierson Chapter 2: History, Trauma, and Healing in Ava DuVernay's 13th and When They See Us Christine Acham Chapter 3: Thinking about Watchmen : A Roundtable Michael Boyce Gillespie Chapter 4: From Sitcom Girl to Drama Queen: Soul Food's Showrunner Examines Her Role in Creating TV's First Successful, Black-Themed Drama Felicia D. Henderson Part II: Attending Black Chapter 5: Gaming as Trayvon: #BlackLivesMatter Machinima and the Queer Metagames of Black Death TreaAndrea M. Russworm Chapter 6: "Trying to Find Relief": Seeing Black Women through the Lens of Mental Health and Wellness in Being Mary Jane and Insecure Nghana Lewis Chapter 7: On Air Black: The Breakfast Club , Visual Radio, and Spreadable Media Adrien Sebro Part III: Monetizing Black Chapter 8: Black Women, Audiences, and the Queer Possibilities of the Black-Cast Melodrama Alfred L. Martin, Jr. Chapter 9: In A '90s Kind of World, I'm Glad I Got My Shows! Digital Streaming and Black Nostalgia Briana Barner Chapter 10: Tyler Perry's Too Close to Home: Black Audiences in the Post-Network Era Shelleen Greene Part IV: Feeling Black Chapter 11: "I'm Trying to Make People Feel Black": Affective Authenticity in Atlanta Brandy Monk-Payton Chapter 12: I'm Digging You: Television's Turn to Dirty South Blackness Beretta E. Smith-Shomade Chapter 13: I Feel Conflicted as F*ck: Netflix's Dear White People and Re-presenting Black Viewing Communities Jacqueline Johnson Notes on Contributors Index.