Like the black experience, the show is messy, fun, shocking, and unpredictable.
Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies is framed within the well-worn 1990s comedy trope "white people are like this/black people are like this." Combined with a classic city mouse-country mouse setup of an inner city teen teaching his preppy and dorky counterpart how to "be black," this Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for the stage is catnip for educated liberals.…
Like the black experience, the show is messy, fun, shocking, and unpredictable.
Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies is framed within the well-worn 1990s comedy trope "white people are like this/black people are like this." Combined with a classic city mouse-country mouse setup of an inner city teen teaching his preppy and dorky counterpart how to "be black," this Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for the stage is catnip for educated liberals.…