tomia
Registered: Sept 23, 2005
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| | Nov 05, 2005 at 05:05 PM | Reply with quote | #5 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by DaveQuote: Originally Posted by tomia
I don't think I have that folder anymore. This was from about two years ago. But if you think about it there are plenty of other examples, one of the most famous is the Huxtable household on the Cosby show. Two Mulatta children conveniently born to two monoracial parents.
I agree that the children are a range of phenotypes that don't seem to correspond with the tv parents on the Cosby show. Some will argue "kids can come out all different colors" but I think it's notable that kids that look like Lisa Bonet, etc. rarely are shown either with parents that look like them or with interracial parents. However, I don't see Mrs. Huxtable as monoracial but rather as more of a brown mulatto phenotype. I don't have problems with presentations like the Cosby show, except when they are the only presentation of families with mulattos. Where are the families where the mother, father, and kids all look like Lisa Bonet? Or where the kids are 1st generation biracial with a white parent and a black parent? I agree with you that there's not balance. Quote:
I've seen mixed race children in diaper, toy and food commercials and when it shows their loving mother she is always (well, almost always, with one exception I can think of which was a headache medicine commercial) a Black woman. Now I understand that there are plenty of Black-White biracials who have a Black mother, however in the instances where these shows or commercials do show the "father" as well (like in that Bank of America example), he is always Black. Plus by showing the Black mother, even if the father is not present, that is implying that this child is from a Black family. It is kind of like saying "Don't you worry, folks! This IS a black child-- we are not promoting misegenation by showing this racially ambiguous kid-- rest assured this child is BLACK."
That's a great point.  Balance is needed. Fascinating post and thread overall.
I realize that Debbie Allen's and Phylicia Rashad's dad was very fair-skinned, and perhaps he was a multigen or maybe even a first gen biracial. However, the most everyone views "Mrs. Huxtable" as black and everyone looks at Bill Cosby as Black. It's not really like they got Lonette McKee to play the mother, someone who is very obviously mixed and just as ambiguous looking as the two Mulatta daughters.
I do have to give some recognition to my favorite daytime soap opera if I could. The Young and the Restless typically gets biracial actors to portray the children of established characters who are played by biracials. They never have been brave enough to show a first generational interracial family who has a Mulatto child but atleast they cast mixed race people to play the family members of other mixed race people.
Victoria Rowell, the actress who plays Dru Winters:
Dru with her "husband" Neil (played by Kristoff St. John)
Dru with daughter Lily (played by Krystle Khalil)
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