Notes from Articles on the blog
How did Roots and The Cosby Show challenge previous sterotypical representations of black people in TV dramas?
Roots- More realisitic views- slavery, rape, deal with racial predudence of black people started to change in 1984. Not that long ago in terms of history
Cosby- 'Focusing on the everyday adventures of an upper-middle-class black family, This family was unlike other black families previously seen on television in that it was solidly upper-middle-class--the Huxtables lived in a fashionable Flatbush brownstone' -The black man was a doctor- all of a sudden was showing an educated person living with a university degree with a profession. Living in a penthouse suite with money and had 5 children at private school. He was shown as being successful which was a really important stage of TV history.
What does the article say about the represntaion of black policman in programmes such as Miami Vice and Hawaii Five-O?
Miami Vice-
hawaii five-0- The black policeman in it his most frequent line was 'yes boss'- taking orders. shown as a position of not being in charge,
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