Do not adjust your set. FX is going to black and white.
A black family and a white family will “trade” races in “Black. White,” a six-part documentary series from (white) producer R.J. Cutler and (black) actor-producer Ice Cube. It debuts in March.
We’re not making this up.
Every day for six weeks over the summer, the African-American Sparks family (from Atlanta) and Caucasian Wurgel family (Santa Monica, Calif.) spent three to five hours getting made up to look like the opposite race by Oscar-nominated Keith VanderLaan (“The Passion of the Christ”).
Then they went out in the world. (The world was L.A., where the families shared a house.)
The black father (now white) gets a bartender job in a white neighborhood. The white daughter (now black) attends all-black slam-poetry classes.
A new race awareness ensues, Fox says.
At the end of the day, the makeup comes off and the families discuss their experiences over dinner at home.
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