Contents -- List of Sidebars -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Events and a Metaphor -- A Chronology -- Chapter 1. Murphy Brown, Dan Quayle, and the Family Row of the Year -- "Today's Woman" and Family Values -- Class and Family Values -- Race and Family Values -- Whiteness -- Abortion and Family Values -- Gay and Lesbian Issues -- Hyperreality -- Multiaxiality -- Figuring People -- Chapter 2. Hearing Anita Hill (and Viewing Bill Cosby) -- Racial-Sexual Articulations -- Gender Articulations -- Articulations of Class -- Articulations and Alliances -- Black Figures: Clarence Thomas and Bill Cosby -- Race and "Today's Woman": Clair Huxtable, Anita Hill, and Murphy Brown -- Not The Cosby Show -- Black Bart -- Chapter 3. Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Videos -- Rodney King and Stacey Koon: Power Working -- Reginald Denny and Damian Williams: Race at Work -- Latasha Harlins and Soon Ja Du: Consuming Race -- Chapter 4. Blackstream Knowledge: Genocide -- Chapter 5. Technostruggles -- Videotech -- Audiotech -- Hierarchies and Multiplicities -- The Scanscape of Fear -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.