After watching the ending of A Raisin in the Sun yesterday, I decided to look up more about it. I realized I should have recognized that Walter Lee Younger was played by Sidney Poitier, because I have seen him in Guess Whos Coming to Dinner. A Raisin in the Sun was written by Lorraine Hansberry, loosely based on her families experriences. Hansberrys husband was a white, Jewish man. Poitier would also later marry a white women. The level of inter-racial marriage is higher than many realize. This is in part because advertisments seem to almost always portray mono-racial couples. Gripe, gripe, gripe at the perpetuation of racial seperation in advertisement. OK, probably most people do not analize adversitement as closely as I do, so it probably does not matter as much as it might seem. There is progress in showing inter-racial couples in some media. The Princess and the Frog is a prime example of showing it in a way without ever really facing up to what is going on. Another example is that at least for a while in the Superman comics Lois Lanes sister Lucy was married to a black man, who was also one of their co-workers at the Daily Planet. This has yet to be portrayed in any animated or live-action version of Superman though. Of course, I know couples where the husband is partly-Hispanic, as in his mother was fully Mexican, but if they were shown in an advertisement people would think they were both fully Anglo-Americans. So maybe there are more mixed ethnicity couples shown in advertising than we realize.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:00:14 +0000
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