final blog

After completing our final group project, I decided to do my final blog on a family sitcom…The Cosby show….something I can relate to, a show that I watched and loved. It was a groundbreaking American television show of the 1980's, both the mother and father worked, Dr. Huxtable had the job of an obstetrician his wife Clair was a legal aid attorney. They had five children, Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa and Rudy. The family held values and were proud to show their ethnic and social backgrounds. Bill Cosby’s character on the Cosby show gave new meaning to the traditional father character by him representing an African-American man that was well educated, responsible and employed. The show portrayed positive images of an African-American household, and it focused constantly on a black family thriving on loving interactions between parents and kids and the love of family in general. There was a positive approach to family life, values and standards. The Cosby show represented the professional side of African-Americans in America at that time. Not only did they make an effort to eliminate the stereotypes people saw of African-Americans, but the show created positive roles of them. The Cosby Show changed the stereotypical view of the African-American family on television. Since the Cosby show aired, African Americans were portrayed in a way which was never shown before.