Black. White.

S01E05: Episode 5

Rose has developed a crush on an accomplished black rapper in her poetry class. Tensions mount between the families, as the attitudes of white Carmen and Bruno continue to offend black Renee and Brian.

Overview

Black. White. was a reality television show on FX. It premiered on Wednesday March 8, 2006 at 10 p.m. Eastern. The series followed two families of three, one white, and the other black. Through studio-quality make-up, the two families—the Wurgels and the Sparks—traded races and experienced what life is like in the other family's shoes. The show was produced and created by Ice Cube, R. J. Cutler and the show's theme song was "Race Card", performed by Ice Cube and produced by Warren G. The series had six episodes.

Episodes

S01E01 Episode 1

March 8, 2006 60 min
White dad Bruno suggests that black people nowadays are discriminated against mostly because they ""expect"" to be, an opinion that greatly annoys black dad Brian. As the families feel their way into their new opposite-race...

S01E02 Episode 2

March 15, 2006 60 min
White mom Carmen makes comments that annoy black mom Renee while they are working with a dialogue coach to learn each other's lingo. Brian in his white makeup gets a job bartending at a wine...

S01E03 Episode 3

March 22, 2006 60 min
White Carmen's praise of a ""beautiful black creature"" leads black mom Renee to conclude that she is a racist even though she means well. Then Carmen and Bruno encounter racism while in their black makeup...

S01E04 Episode 4

March 29, 2006 60 min
Rose, in her black makeup, is surprised at how many references are made to race as she accompanies a black friend from poetry class, but she and her mom are even more surprised at the...

S01E05 Episode 5

April 5, 2006 60 min
Rose has developed a crush on an accomplished black rapper in her poetry class. Tensions mount between the families, as the attitudes of white Carmen and Bruno continue to offend black Renee and Brian.

S01E06 Episode 6

April 12, 2006 60 min
As the experiment draws to a close, the two families think back over the past six weeks and try to draw conclusions about what they have learned in the area of race relations.

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