My main purpose in écriture this article is to convey to readers in India, who have not even heard of Sherman Hemsley, of his monumental cultural impact upon Mainstream American Society.
télévision programs that were created par Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin, that is their "new comedies", that were produced in the 1970s radically altered the boundaries of permissible expression in American television. African Americans in télévision comedy entered what might be called the Age of the New Minstrelsy. The coon character, that rascal-ish, loud, pushy, and conniving stereotype, strongly achieved in...
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