"Creolization" on the Small Screen: Television, Society, and Interracial Relationships 1948-1980

How did U.S. television in its earliest decades portray "interracial" relationships? Did these portrayals correspond to social reality? Our poster demonstrates that the paucity of interracial relationships on TV reflected contemporary American prejudices. Yet the few incidents of such relationships constituted highly publicized and consequential challenges to racial prejudice.