Results: Color-Blind Casts Heat TV Shows Up!
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When 'Friends' was in its prime, critics always drew attention to the fact that their cast was about as 'White' as you could get. When you think about it, in a big city like New York, chances would be quite slim that you could be six twenty-something white adults surrounded by a lot of other white adults. Yes, occasionally they threw in someone of another race, but not too often, and never as a main character. Flash forward years later, and TV is filled with casts that are ethnically, racially and gender-oriented diverse. And to even up the game, many shows are 'color-blind' and even 'gender-blind', casting characters in roles just as another character, without making a big deal of their race, color or gender. How many of these shows do you applaud for taking this step (finally)?
Orange Is The New Black -- Not only does this show have one of the most ethnically diverse casts on television, it also deals with aspects of body and gender diversity.
28%
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551 votes
Empire -- powerful family dynamics with racially diverse cast
16%
•
310 votes
Power -- boasts a multiethnic and multilingual cast that is almost perfectly reflective of the diversity of NYC
7%
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129 votes
Grey’s Anatomy -- known for its diverse cast of doctors, which is due to the use of color-blind casting
24%
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479 votes
Black-ish -- successful African-American father trying to make sure that his children don’t forget their blackness in the midst of living in a predominantly white neighborhood
16%
•
307 votes
Fresh Off The Boat -- the first Asian-American sitcom to show on network television in more than 20 years.
13%
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254 votes
How to Get Away with Murder -- group of top-performing (and racially diverse) students
16%
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314 votes
The Fosters -- multi-ethnic family being raised by two moms.
8%
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162 votes
Girl Code -- cast members are white, black, Asian, Latino, and multi-ethnic.
6%
•
117 votes
None of them
45%
•
898 votes
Other (please specify)
3%
•
66 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| n/a | 0.31% | 11 |
| 0.28% | 10 | |
| na | 0.25% | 9 |
| don't watch any of these | 0.06% | 2 |
| do not watch tv | 0.06% | 2 |
| haven't seen any of them | 0.03% | 1 |
| don't care enough to read the whole thing. | 0.03% | 1 |
| all of them & others | 0.03% | 1 |
| i don't know any of these shows | 0.03% | 1 |
| haven't seen any of these | 0.03% | 1 |
| n/a never seen any of these. | 0.03% | 1 |
| n/a i have not watched any of these shows. | 0.03% | 1 |
| don't watch any of them, but i feel it's important to present characters that people of all races/genders/etc can relate to | 0.03% | 1 |
| i don't watch any of these shows, sorry | 0.03% | 1 |
| star trek | 0.03% | 1 |
| do not watch any of these, so do not know | 0.03% | 1 |
| i think the policies of diversity are great, but don't watch these shows. | 0.03% | 1 |
| na don't watch any of them | 0.03% | 1 |
| big bang theory | 0.03% | 1 |
| i have never watched any of these shows, so i don't have an opinion. | 0.03% | 1 |
| modern family | 0.03% | 1 |
| spongebob | 0.03% | 1 |
| the flash (interracial dating) | 0.03% | 1 |
| i don't applaud because i could care less. | 0.03% | 1 |
| all of them | 0.03% | 1 |
| i applaud all of them for taking the initiative of portraying a realistic society | 0.03% | 1 |
| i enjoy a program because it's a good show | 0.03% | 1 |
| don't watch tv | 0.03% | 1 |
| not familiar/don't care | 0.03% | 1 |
| don't watch these shows/never seen or heard of most of them | 0.03% | 1 |
| n/a haven't seen any of these | 0.03% | 1 |
| get a life | 0.03% | 1 |
| have not watched any of these shows so cannot comment. | 0.03% | 1 |
| don't care | 0.03% | 1 |
| dont matter to me | 0.03% | 1 |
| i don't really care what their races are. | 0.03% | 1 |
| i have not seen many of these, but support diversity on tv. etc. | 0.03% | 1 |
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Back years ago, it was pretty hard to find a show that featured anything but an all-white cast, or at least had a character from another race depicted as anything other than a "maid' or other stereotypical racial casting. However, some shows took that bold step earlier than some. How many of these 'ground-breaking' shows do you know--all of which broke barriers in TV?
Julia --one of the first television shows to resist placing African-American characters in stereotypical parts
25%
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498 votes
The Cosby Show--broke through color and class barriers
57%
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1134 votes
Star Trek: The Original Series --featured two people of color as leading characters – African-American actress Nichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura and Asian-American actor George Takei as Hikaru Sulu
49%
•
966 votes
All-American Girl--Margaret Cho wanted to show American audiences what a real Asian family looked like
11%
•
209 votes
I Love Lucy -- the first show to cast a Latino actor as the lead
56%
•
1103 votes
Battlestar Galactica -- featured a cast that defied the boundaries of race
25%
•
488 votes
None of these
22%
•
443 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
•
26 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.14% | 7 | |
| n/a | 0.10% | 5 |
| na | 0.04% | 2 |
| get a life much more important things going on in the world right now. | 0.02% | 1 |
| don't watch tv | 0.02% | 1 |
| archie bunker, the jeffersons | 0.02% | 1 |
| fresh prince of bel-air | 0.02% | 1 |
| amos and andy | 0.02% | 1 |
| the jeffersons | 0.02% | 1 |
| good times, the jeffersons | 0.02% | 1 |
| the jefferson's- a white man married to a black woman. | 0.02% | 1 |
| different strokes--white millionaire adopts two black boys as sons. | 0.02% | 1 |
| see above | 0.02% | 1 |
| good times, sanford and son | 0.02% | 1 |
| i spy | 0.02% | 1 |
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