Television Show "Them"

Photo of Black family from "Them". Sourced from Time Magazine.
Trailer of TV show "Them". Sourced from IMDb.
Photo of White family from "Them". Sourced from Rolling Stone.

The TV show "Them" was created by Little Marvin and the show focues on the Great Migration (1916-1917) when about 6 million African Americans migrated from the South to the North and West. The family pictured (Image 1) above moves from North Carolina to Compton, California. They move in hopes of leaving racism from the Jim Crow South and are surprised when their neighborhood is not so friendly. They are the only Black family in the nieghborhood and are immediately disresepected and harrassed by their neighbors. Pictured above (Image 3) is the head wife of the neighboorhood, she tries to force the black family out, she has a need for social control in the show. This can lead to what is called white fight and white flight. White fight the resistance to integration of diversifying within neighborhoods, by white people towards black people. They began to riot and do everything in their power to get black people out of “their neighborhoods”. When the act of white fight fails, the result is white flight. White flight involves the migration of white people from integrated areas/ neighborhoods.

References

Berman, J. 2021. 'Them' and the trouble with realistic violence in genre TV. The Controversy Around Amazon's Them Underscores the Trouble With Realistic Violence in Genre TV. https://time.com/5954572/them-amazon-controversy/ .

IMDb.com. 2021. Them. IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9064858/ .

Sepinwall, A. 2021. 'Them: Covenant' is haunted by another show. Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/them-convenant-review-amazon-1149937/.