"Movin' On Up

Acham's article "Movin' On Up: Contemporary Television as a Site of Resistance" illustrates the continuing difficulty of portraying people of different ethnicity, especially black, in a positive light in the media. He states that each racial groups comes with its own stereotypes. In an interview with Chris Rock, the actor says that you would never see an Asia in the position of a homeless person. The intervewer replied that they were studying in the library. This dialogue reinforces the notion that Asian Americans have had an easier time assimiliating into the American culture. This could be because Asians have a lighter complexion like the white American.

Blacks and Latinos have had a more difficult time being represetned in a positice light in the media than Asians. Acham comments on the first Balck woman to appear in a police drama was Chrstie Love who played Teresa Graves. The current season of CSI recently replaced their head actor with a Black man. Though not the first Black actor on the show, he adds authority and a fascinating dynamic to the team. However, in a recent episode in this past season, there is an episode where a white police officer kills a black man he believes to be commitng a crime. The cop was in a bad neighborhood and thought that every man of color was a criminal. However, the man he shot was a police officer as well.