{"id":37399,"date":"2014-09-19T18:29:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37399"},"modified":"2014-11-06T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:24:12","slug":"color-lines-are-blurred-in-abc-comedy-black-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37399","title":{"rendered":"Color Lines Are Blurred in ABC Comedy ‘Black-Ish’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Color Lines Are Blurred in ABC Comedy ‘Black-Ish’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/a>
\n2014-09-19<\/p>\n

Frazier Moore<\/strong><\/a>, Television Writer<\/p>\n

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.<\/a> (AP) \u2014 Tracee Ellis Ross<\/a> delivers perhaps the funniest line you’ll hear on a sitcom this fall.<\/p>\n

The character she plays on ABC’s<\/a> comedy “black-ish<\/a>” is, like Ross, an appealing mix of beauty, smarts and zaniness. She is totally plausible as a savvy mother of four and the loving wife of an up-and-coming ad exec (co-star Anthony Anderson<\/a>), not to mention a busy anesthesiologist.<\/p>\n

In this upscale African-American family, Dr. Rainbow Johnson also happens to be biracial. This occasionally spurs Andre, her hubby, who’s forever fretting about the family’s black cred, to question whether she is certifiably “black.”<\/p>\n

He does this in the series’ premiere, to which, unfazed, Rainbow fires back, “If I’m not really black, then could someone please tell my hair and my ass!”<\/p>\n

Reminded of that line during a recent interview, Ross cracks up.<\/p>\n

“That’s what I love about our show,” she says. “With that line, my character sums it all up: ‘Are you STILL coming from the world that believes all black people are the same and all black people should think the same? C’mon, Dre!'”<\/p>\n

With remarkable humor and finesse, “black-ish” (which debuts Sept. 24 at 9:30 p.m. EDT) addresses race, culture, socio-economics and other weighty matters…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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