50th Anniversary of Good Times: Intersections of Family, Class, Race, and Gender

​February 8, 2024, will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the American situation comedy Good Times, which aired on the CBS network until August 1, 1979. Good Times was truly remarkable for its time because the series featured the first recurring, intact Black nuclear family, the Evanses, on primetime television. After a brief overview of Black television sitcoms that aired before 1974, I will show that Good Times is a seventies television milestone because it depicted groundbreaking representations of family, class, race, and gender. I will close the presentation with highlighting the dialogue between Good Times and contemporary depictions of the twenty-first-century urban Black working-class nuclear family after 1979.
 
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