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February 16, 2006
Race Reality Show
FX's new series, "Black.White." brings two self-defined "progressive" families together to trade ethnicity - wigs, paint, and contacts re-cast a black family as white and a white family as black. The two families then interact with each other and the cameras in a reality t.v. setting... From the NY Times article it sounds as though the white family still doesn't recognize the impact their whiteness has on their privilege and culture. I'm curious to see the show itself, and whether it trivializes, justifies, or condemns the subtle (or not so subtle) racism that dominates American culture.
Confronting America's Racial Divide, in Blackface and White