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black situation comedies
Title: black situation comedies
Category: Arts & Humanities
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black situation comedies
Black Situation Comedies: Past and Present
“We are more or less told who we are, rather than asked…we sing, we dance, we tell jokes- that’s all we are allowed to do. We entertain” (Hill, 56). Marla Gibb, actress on The Jeffersons and 227 stated this when testifying to the U.S. Commission of Civil Rights about the confining representations of African Americans on television. But are African Americans capable of showing a different side through this medium? Evidently so, as shown such shows as The …showed first 85 words of 2571 total…
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