Growing up three of my favorite race-related television programs were The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Roseanne, and That’s So Raven. On the other hand, my two favorite movies of all time are The Color of Friendship and Remember the Titans, while my favorite PC video game by then was the Prince of Persia. Different researchers have studied the overrepresentation of whites and the underrepresentation of other minority groups in the media and entertainment industry (Erigha, 2015; Lasiello, 2020). Yet, all they do is to promote a seemingly inaccurate picture. I like the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air because it portrays the lives of a rich black family, compared to the lives of a white middle-income family portrayed in Roseanne.
On the other hand, the films the Color of Friendship, about a true story of an African American politician who adopted a white South African kid at the height of apartheid, and Remember the Titans, another film adopted from true events that happened in 1971 when a white southern high school accepted both black kids and a black coach to their football program. Separate, each of the films addresses different race-related themes. For instance, there is an episode in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where Will has to teach his cousin Carlton how to behave when driving while black. Together, however, all the films, movies, and video games serve to provide a bigger picture on the true nature of racism in the country.
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Interracial Marriage and Marriage Rates
Different cultural variables contribute to the dramatic differences between attitudes toward interracial marriage and interracial marriage rates. For instance, community expectations and norms determine the race relationships and the attitudes towards interracial marriages (Conway & Leonard, 2018). If a community does not accept interracial relationships, there will be fewer interracial marriages. Secondly, economic and physical resources also influence individual attitude towards interracial marriages (Gabriel & Esposito, 2017). Those from low-income groups (who are mostly minorities) spend more time together and are less likely to interact with those of other races extensively. As a result, they are less likely to enter into romantic relationships, resulting in interracial marriages. However, individual educational and literacy level and exposure to modern culture (mostly through social media and entertainment industry) is quickly changing individual and societal attitudes towards interracial marriages.
References
Conway, D., & Leonard, P. (2018). Transgressing transnational normativity?: British migration and interracial marriage in South Africa. In British Migration (pp. 94-114). Routledge.
Erigha, M. (2015). Race, gender, Hollywood: Representation in cultural production and digital media's potential for change. Sociology Compass , 9 (1), 78-89.
Gabriel, R., & Esposito, M. H. (2017, April). Interracial Couples and the Association Among Marriage and Health. In Population Association of America 2017 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL .
Iasiello, C. A. (2020, May). Using agent based modeling to interpret underlying factors of underrepresentation of minorities in Hollywood films. In 2020 Spring Simulation Conference (SpringSim) (pp. 1-12). IEEE.
