Scratchin' and Survivin' - Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions

The 1970s was a golden age for representations of African-American life on TV sitcoms: Sanford & Son, Good Times,The Jeffersons. Scratchin’ and Survivin’ discovers surprising parallels between the behind-the-scenes drama at Tandem and the plotlines that aired on their sitcoms, as both real and fictional African-Americans devised various strategies