Thursday, April 30, 2009

I would have to choose Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show best represents the multifarious blackness described by the academic literature we read earlier in the semester. She is a lawyer, a working women, a wife, and a mother of five. She represents many different facets of black womanhood. She is outspoken and very bright. Clair knows she is a role model to her children and she is moral and upstanding. She is kind, and sometimes silly with her husband, and an outstanding mother. She also manages to be very beautiful while not wearing clothing that is too revealing. She provides, I think, a sharp contrast to many portrayals of black women in popular culture, which are seen as sex objects. I wish there were more characters like her in film and television. It is really disturbing to me the way black womanhood is displayed in most popular culture, such as music videos, and "Flavor of Love". I think T.V. needs representations of what black womanhood really is, strenghth, intelligence, women who overcome a lot to get where they are, and place high value on their families.

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