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Multimedia Journal Entry #1
For multimedia journal selection number 1, I chose Shameless as my TV program. I decided on this program as I seen it being a good fit given it has diversity as well as it being a racially inclusive show and at times exclusive. Shameless, a Showtime original, is currently in its 9th season of broadcasting. It is centered around a Chicago family consisting of 6 kids who live in poverty in a poor neighborhood with a dead beat of a Dad, Frank, who only cares about himself and a mother who has been missing most of the kid’s life so the oldest one is essentially their mother and father. It relates to this course as there is racial stereotyping and profiling throughout the series.
Cultured Vultures. The Face on the Brochure: Shameless’ Liam Gallagher and Children of Color in Private Education.
Throughout this series’ nine seasons there has been a plethora of ways the show has sparked a conversation regarding race, ethnicity, and cultural diversity. The first being when Frank got his Black son into a fancy private school, that he would not be able to afford, solely due to the school’s desire to look more diverse. Another example is in the latest season, Frank enters a political campaign between a Gay Latino man who wants to turn an old brewery in the town into a Latino LGBT center, and an African-American woman who wants to turn the brewery into an African-American Art Museum. He was paid by one candidate to place yard signs around the town and by the other candidate to steal the signs and bring the signs in. Doing that inspired him to launch his own campaign using a former politician as the candidate. He selected a guy named Mo White and entered the racially divided and driven campaign.
Show Snob. Shameless Season 9, Episode 3 Recap: (‘Weirdo Galagher Vortex’).
His campaign focused on reverse racism and bringing more white back to this Chicago suburb as it has continually gotten more racially diverse over the course of Frank’s lifetime. He saw this opportunity given that it was such a racially segregated city and political race to capture the white’s votes and money.
Show Snob. Shameless Season 9, Episode 4 Recap: ('Do Right, Vote White’).
Even as a Caucasian, I think the show crossed a line with this idea of such racially-focused campaigns in politics. Intersectionality plays a big role in this as well given the race, gender, sexuality, and discriminative approach the show took. I understand that it is a comedy and has a ridiculous plot to it and that’s what makes it Shameless but to include the idea that Chicago needs to take back the city with more white people and opportunities is very oppressive and not what we as a society have worked towards which quite essentially would be reversing over the last 50 plus years of progress.