Analysis Of Episode 1 Episode 6 Of American Dad

The Racist American Season 1 Episode 6 of American Dad was the first episode where it implied racism into the name of the episode, “Homeland Insecurities”. The title “Homeland Insecurities” is a reference to Homeland Security, which was created in response of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. The “insecurities” implies that there is terrorist around the country ready to strike. The episode itself has racism. Season 1 Episode 6 is about how the Smith family, white middle class family, wanted to throw a barbeque for their neighborhood. Stan and his wife Francine went around to all the houses personally inviting their neighbors to the barbeque. Everything was going great until they came across a new family, the Mamaris. Stan notices their non-white

Although American Dad is not a children’s book, it still fits in with the majority without having Significant African American content. The only time African Americans were brought up in this episode was at the end when Bob Mamari says, “Stan’s better than our last neighbors, they were black.” This representation goes along with what Hughes-Hassel was saying; that African Americans are not well represented in media and if they are brought up it’s very meaningless. It was meaningless when brought up in this episode, African Americans were only brought up to be made fun

There were not many signs of white privilege in this episode because there was only white Americans except for the Mamaris. Obviously the all-white community is a part of white privilege, now that has been compromised Stan feels threatened and wants to get rid of them. Another sign of “privilege” was right in the beginning of the episode where Stan was driving his SUV around. Stan ran out of gas and says, “… that I as an American have every right to drive”, referring to his SUV. Now this is not white privilege, but it is American privilege. Now as an American I realize that Stan Smith is nothing like most Americans, but what about people who are not from America? This just sets up another racist stereotype! A lot of racism can be avoided by single stories like American Dad. American Dad is just one big single story. A middle class family, stay at home mom, the dad has a good job, it is everything that other countries think of when they hear Americans. The most consistent single story throughout American Dad is the stay at home mom who cooks, cleans, and wears skirts all the time. For this specific episode though, the main single story was that everyone with a middle eastern decent is a terrorist in which Stan thought of the Mamaris as