{"id":37473,"date":"2014-09-24T20:45:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T20:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37473"},"modified":"2014-11-06T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:24:31","slug":"a-family-rooted-in-two-realms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37473","title":{"rendered":"A Family Rooted in Two Realms"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Family Rooted in Two Realms<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2014-09-23<\/p>\n

Neil Genzlinger<\/strong><\/a>, Television Critic<\/p>\n

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\nIn \u201cblack-ish,\u201d Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross lead a family wrestling with racial issues. From left, Marsai Martin<\/a>, Marcus Scribner<\/a>, Yara Shahidi<\/a> and Miles Brown<\/a> as their children.
\nADAM TAYLOR \/ ABC<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018black-ish,\u2019 a New ABC Comedy, Taps Racial Issues<\/em><\/p>\n

A lot of people in the television business are said to be curious to see how \u201cblack-ish<\/a>,\u201d ABC\u2019s<\/a> new comedy, is received when it has its premiere on Wednesday night. What they should really be curious about, though, is where the series goes after its funny but talking-point-heavy first episode.<\/p>\n

The sitcom centers on a black family in Los Angeles<\/a>, the Johnsons, struggling with prosperity. Andre (Anthony Anderson<\/a>) works at an advertising agency; in the premiere, he\u2019s on the verge of a major promotion. Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross<\/a>) is an anesthesiologist. Their four children are smart and adorable.<\/p>\n

If this puts you in mind of the Huxtables of \u201cThe Cosby Show<\/a>,\u201d that\u2019s no accident. But more than the Huxtables ever were, the Johnsons are wrestling with whether their comfortable lives are causing them to forget that they\u2019re black…<\/p>\n

…At home, he tells his lighter-skinned wife \u2014 a \u201cpigment-challenged mixed-race woman,\u201d he calls her \u2014 that she\u2019s not black enough. He is dismayed that his older son is trying out for field hockey instead of basketball. The dinner table discussion (yes, we\u2019ve found the last family in America that still eats together around a dinner table) focuses on whether the children know that Barack Obama<\/a> is the first black president. Even fried chicken comes in for scrutiny, although not from Andre, but from his father, winningly played by Laurence Fishburne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all gentle as can be. \u201cBlack-ish\u201d may be full of racial themes, but it\u2019s working a gimmick that transcends race: Dad as buffoon…<\/p>\n

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

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