The Cosby Show, the top American sitcom for eight years in the 1980s, depicted a middle class Black family that consisted of a father who was a doctor, a mother who was a lawyer, and five children. Do the show's positive depictions of an African American family provide an example how racist ideology, at least in some television programs, has disappeared in the media? Why or why not?

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The Answer of The Cosby Show, the top American sitcom for eight years in the 1980s, depicted a middle class Black family that consisted of a father who was a doctor, a mother who was a lawyer, and five children. Do the show's positive depictions of an African American family provide an example how racist ideology, at least in some television programs, has disappeared in the media? Why or why not?

The Cosby Show, the Top American Sitcom for Eight Years