Sanford Versus Steinberg: black sitcoms, Jewish writers, and the 1970s ethnic revival

Abstract

In the 1970s, ethnic comedy had gone mainstream. Stephen Vider zeroes in on the era's biggest black sitcom and its Jewish writers: in one episode, the roles are hilariously reversed. But does this easy flip reflect real kinship or suppress dramatic differences?

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