I had the opportunity to attend the Dr. Coleman’s lecture on sites of resistance and reinforcement found in the television shows created by award winning producer Shonda Rimes. This seminar particular focused on her hit television series “Scandal” featuring a powerful female Washington D.C. crisis manager named Olivia Pope. First Dr. Coleman helped us to understand why she decided to research the show Scandal. She explained that Shonda Rimes was not the first female African-American producer with as many shows on prime time television as she does, Rimes is the only producer at all with that many hits. Dr. Colemen went on to explain that the media that is created can be not only resistant to gender, class, and race stereotypes and prejudices
