The above picture is a screen-shot from Britain's first medical drama, entitled Emergency- Ward 10*. It shows the on-screen love affair between a black surgeon, Joan Hooley, and a whit doctor, Giles Farmer. Taken from a 1964 episode of the series, the picture shows the first ever on-screen interracial kiss. Ironically, it came during a time when America was trying hard to break the wall of segregation. The reason I chose this picture is because it symbolizes the epitome of racial harmony; that is, romantic love that connects the barrier of race.

For my material artifact, I chose my yin-yang twins CD. The album artwork is riddled with racial stereotypes -from the picture of the "custom grill" shop to the To D-Roc and Kaine driving the old school Chevy on the cover, the album, when taken as a whole, is almost an archetype of main stream stereotypes being associated with "ghetto".














*ed: for credibility sake, this series might have been called Calling Nurse Roberts; I had a bit of trouble figuring out which name is the correct one, given that both are mentioned in the article