Politics & Crime Pop Culture’s Greatest Interracial College Roommates
From the Department of Obvious, a new study is touting that having a college roommate of a different race can reduce prejudice and diversify friendships (of course, it also claims that having a white roommate can “boost black students’ academic performance,” but let’s leave that bit of fuckery alone).
But how does that bear out in real life (and by “real life,” we of course mean “television and movies”)? Hollywood clearly loves a good interracial buddy story, and nothing assuages its liberal guilt like an academic rainbow coalition. We took a look back over the past 20 years and came up with five movies and five TV shows that knew the value of educational diversity…
