To be fair, she wasn't lost. The system was. "Representation isn't the same as legitimization. When Girlfriends aired, shows featuring Black casts were categorized as 'Black,' a label that was perceived as less serious, less substantive. (The show was often called the ''urban' version of Sex and the City'"a descriptor that, when I reminded Ross of it, made her […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM on August 31, 2020