As spectators of North-American Black sitcoms, we have observed that these series are likely to approach themes that silence the fight for racial desegregation in the United States. Our hypothesis is that a great part of the sitcoms tend to assimilate a homogenizing perception of African-Americaness, reinforced by stereotypes and supposedly unquestionable truths about Blackness. The African-American is always viewed from the perspective of the other, whose central position in discourse produces meanings of Blackness. In the light of such considerations, we aim at problematizing meanings of African-Americaness constructed in the series Everybody hates Chris. Our goal is the analysis of the various ways of functioning of that discourse, in that they legitimize certain subjective positions for the African- American, consequently producing an imaginary of African-Americaness that is presented as truthful. On these grounds, this research is based on the discursive perspective of Michel Pêcheux (1969, 1975) and Michel Foucault (1969, 1971, 1979). The corpus of analysys is composed of ten episodes of Everybody hates Chris. We discuss the popularization of television in the United States since the 1950s, when the sitcom symbolized the ratification of the idealized American family. We analyse how such a conception of family is explored then and is perpetuated up to the present, excluding perceptions of Blackness that do not integrate the family imaginary of the post Second World War (from the 1940s and 1950s). We also discuss the concept of invented traditions, by shedding light on how the celebration of rituals allows for the exclusion of what is harmful to the so called American authenticity. We mainly seek to observe how meanings of African-Americaness are constructed in celebrations that establish national cohesion as the foundation of a society in which the African-American is a peripheral subject. We finally study how meanings of African-Americaness are incorporated or contested, questioning totalizing perceptions of Blackness. Our contention is that the meanings of Blackness are constructed in the articulation of multiple categories (gender, race, social class). The study shows that the African-American identity does not presuppose univocal meanings for it is constructed from the various discursive positions occupied by the subject.