Yet to me and some scholars, critics and TV producers, something is missing. Some recent shows confuse hopelessness with being authentically Black. Others display what one scholar calls an "apolitical multiculturalism"— they feature Black and brown actors but rarely explore their characters' race or ethnicity.
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