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20. Watkins, On the Real Side, 16–41. Also see the introduction for<br />
further delineation of African American humor.<br />
21. This image can be seen in such films as Hallelujah (1929), the first<br />
major Hollywood film that featured an all-black cast, and the Paul Robeson<br />
film The Emperor Jones (1933). It is interesting to note that African<br />
American director Oscar Micheaux’s films also used this stereotype to<br />
condemn working-class blacks who did not conform to middle-class and<br />
church-oriented lifestyles.<br />
22. Although adapted from a Steptoe and Son script, the nuances of the<br />
African American performance by Foxx and other characters transform<br />
this script into traditional African American humor.<br />
23. Watkins, On the Real Side, 23.<br />
24. Davidson, “The World’s Funniest Dishwasher Is Still Cleaning<br />
Up,” 27.<br />
25. Ibid., 27.<br />
26. Pryor will be discussed in more detail in the analysis of The Richard<br />
Pryor Show, in chapter 6.<br />
27. For further information on the reclaiming of the term nigger in contemporary<br />
popular culture, see Todd Boyd, Am I Black Enough for You?<br />
Popular Culture from the Hood and Beyond.<br />
28. Cecil Smith, “Sanford & Son: It’s TV’s First Black-on-Black Show,” 2.<br />
29. Eugenia Collier, “Sanford and Son Is White to the Core,” 1, 3.<br />
30. Smith, “Sanford & Son,” 2.<br />
31. Alex McNeil, Total Television, 722.<br />
32. Michael O’Daniel, “Everything a Performer Could Ask for . . . Except<br />
the One Thing He Wants Most: Respect,” 19.<br />
33. Ibid., 19.<br />
34. Ibid., 20.<br />
35. Bill O’Hallaren, “Without Sanford and without Son . . . ,” 60.<br />
5. Respect Yourself!<br />
Notes to Chapter 5 209<br />
1. Ella Baker, quoted in Giddings, When and Where I Enter, 284.<br />
2. George, The Death of Rhythm and Blues, 105–6.<br />
3. Robin Kelley refers to the work of anthropologist James C. Scott.<br />
4. I use the term racial dictatorship as suggested by Omi and Winant<br />
and as described in the introduction.<br />
5. Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in<br />
Postwar America, 1.<br />
6. The quotation that serves as the heading for this section is from<br />
Diahann Carroll, quoted in Carolyn See, “I’m a Black Woman with a White<br />
Image,” 30.<br />
7. Richard Warren Lewis, “The Importance of Being Julia,” 24.<br />
8. Ibid., 24.