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Black men, Asian women: exploring fantasy and reality, starting with TV hospital dramas.(culture)
Colorlines Magazine
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March 22, 2006|
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As a South Asian woman with a long and pluralistic dating history, I am amazed these days to see two couples comprised of Asian women and Black men every week. The sugary romance between the excessively noble characters played by Parminder Nagra and Shafiq Atkins on ER follows the much hotter one between Ming Na Wen and Mekhi Phifer that ended two seasons ago. Grey's Anatomy features Sandra Oh in an up-and -down relationship with Isaiah Washington.
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What accounts for such interest? It's as though these couples have been pouring out of medical schools ...
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