• If you really wanted to stretch the allegory, Carla and Betty’s relationship is the relationship between black and white America.

    Mad Men Gets Racial, Again
  • It’s more important for Mad Men to get it right on race in those few instances that it does take on racial issues, than it is to have racial tension be a major theme in the show’s overall arc.

    Mad Men and Race
  • Mad Men takes on a number of cultural controversies, yet race is treated with politeness, distance, restraint, and a heavy dose of sentimentality. For a show that takes place in the early ’60s, this is a glaring omission.

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