A Different World
Mammy Dearest
Season 5, Episode 11 · Aired 1991-12-05
Synopsis
Airing eleven years after my Howard University dissertation trumped extant evidence disclaiming a gender neutral American culture, episode 11 from season 5 is the mother lode imitation of silk purse life from a sow's ear. The African Queen ending does nothing to obscure this producer's eurocentric bias toward aryan motherhood & his imprimatur that blacks embrace their own out-of-Africa evolution.
In the series
This episode is part of A Different World (1987–1993) on NBC.
HBCU life after Denise left the nest — Cosby spin-off that found its own voice.
Key cast
- Jasmine Guy as Whitley Gilbert
- Kadeem Hardison as Dwayne Wayne
- Dawnn Lewis as Jaleesa Vinson
- Cree Summer as Freddie Brooks
- Darryl M. Bell as Ron Johnson