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Exploring Iyanla Vanzant’s Toolkit for Fix My Life

October 11, 2012
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Exploring Iyanla Vanzant’s Toolkit for <i>Fix My Life</i>

In the second of two posts on the enterprise of black female discipline, how does the enterprise change when a black woman is the disciplinarian?
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Steve Harvey and the Enterprise of Black Female Discipline

October 3, 2012
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Steve Harvey and the Enterprise of Black Female Discipline

While it feels natural to celebrate the advance in African American representation demonstrated by Harvey’s multifaceted empire, the black feminist in me wonders if his large steps forward will mean a step backward for black women in media.
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Sifting Through the Trash: Guided Spectatorship at the Maury Show

December 17, 2010
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Sifting Through the Trash: Guided Spectatorship at the <i>Maury</i> Show

The most memorable part of being a Maury audience member was learning how the show achieves such a consistently united, cacophonous reaction from its audience: through coaching from the production crew.
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The NBC Late-Night Train Wreck

January 8, 2010
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The NBC Late-Night Train Wreck

What NBC failed to understand in the Leno/O'Brien debacle is what it itself had created--late-night audiences.
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