TV Finds Drama in Interracial Dating. he scene, which appears in tonight’s installment of “The West Wing,” is just one of these of a onslaught of prime-time series which can be aggressively tackling romance that is interracial
The 19-year-old daughter of this president of this United States includes a problem. On a single hand, her relationship with her new boyfriend couldn’t be better. But trouble is brewing.
For Zoey Bartlet (Elisabeth Moss)–the first daughter on NBC’s White home drama, “The West Wing”–the dilemma is that her beau, Charlie Young (Dule Hill), is black colored. White supremacists have already been giving death threats to the White home, and an increasingly worried president (Martin Sheen) blocks the couple intends to go right to the opening of the hot new club. Whenever Zoey tells Charlie, who is also her father’s aide that is personal within a lunch, he storms out of the restaurant.
The scene, which appears in tonight’s installment of “The western Wing,” is merely one of these of a onslaught of prime-time series being aggressively tackling romance that is interracial. Until a few periods ago, such relationships had been a rarity on network tv, considered too controversial and responsive to depict or explore. Now at the very least six prime-time dramas and comedies have tale lines revolving around mixed-race couples.
“There’s this ‘toe-in-the-water’ approach now in television about showing blacks and whites in love on television,” said Robert M. Entman, manager associated with the Department of Communication at vermont State University and co-author regarding the upcoming book “The Ebony Image within the White Mind: Media and Race in the us.”