In Minabrere Ibelema's essay 'Identity Crisis', Ibelema
suggests that the mainstream american culture is so powerful that
all cultures conform to it. Ibelema does this by showing how the
mass media portrays African Americans in relation to their
cultural identity by using situation comedies as a measuring
tool. Of the episodes Ibelema uses very few of them look at
African Americans cultural identity. However, what they do is
briefly address a cultural story line for one episode, but then
revert back to the mainstream anglo programming. On the
otherhand, Elizabeth Wilson says in her essa…
