The Black Family and the White Family in a Bizarre Sociocultural Study

In a scene from 2006, the black family and the white family are told that they need to take classes in being white and being black respectively before they don their guises. "It's partly interesting to me because I think it really runs through a lot of the stereotypes about like white people's ignorance of racism," he says. The show highlights some very clear asymmetries in people's relationship to racial knowledge according to him.

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