The Vicissitudes of the Stereotype -- Issues and Some Answers -- Television and Conservative Racial Projects after the '60s -- Ch. 1. "In a crisis we must have a sense of drama": Civil Rights and Televisual Information -- The Burden of Liveness -- "Pictures are the point of television news" -- "We have shut ourselves off from the rest of the world" -- "That cycle of violence and publicity" -- "The vehemence of a dream" -- Ch. 2. The Double Life of "Sit-In" -- "Sit-In"'s Industrial Context -- "Sit-In" Flashes Back -- "Sit-In" as a Movement Text -- "Sit-In" and Black Idiom -- Ch. 3. King TV -- Rodney King Live -- Liveness: An Ideology of Television and Race -- L. A. Law and Televisual Justice -- Doogie Howser, M.D., and Televisual Instruction -- Rodney King Dead -- Ch. 4. Giuliani Time: Urban Policing and Brooklyn South -- Cops and Cop Shows -- Giuliani Time -- How to Identify with the Cops -- Good Cop, Bad Cop