![]() ![]() (Grandma Maya does visit eventually and takes Sydney to a Black stylist.) “That didn’t feel realistic. just to ask about her grandchild’s hair habits,” she adds. “We knew Grandma Maya wasn’t going to fly all the way from D.C. Sydney’s world, from her dad and grandmother to her friends and crushes, is all white.” “And Jada is there in large part because this conversation could not come from a white person. “I named the character after my sister,” Richard reveals. Mapp), a Black classmate, lab partner and science study buddy, sparks the topic when she curiously asks Sydney why she always flatirons her hair, especially because in one instance, it made her late. This meant Richard and company had to create a character and a scenario where Sydney would want to learn more about her unique tendrils, the texture and how it affects her identity. We had to figure out how to get into it.”īut Sydney’s mom is deceased and her Grandma Maya ( mixed-ish‘s Carlease Burke) lives in Washington D.C. “She’s biracial and she has this Black side, but she lives with the white side of her family. “In the writers’ room, we really wanted to explore Sydney’s Black identity,” Kourtney Richard, the staff scribe who wrote the episode, tells TVLine. So when the showrunner and writers behind the tween sitcom decided to comb through Sydney’s very personal Black hair journey in an upcoming installment titled “The Hair Switch Project” (airing Friday at 8:25/7:25c), it had to feel organic. Sure, the title character Sydney ( Happy!‘s Ruth Righi) has a white father and a Black mother, but race is never addressed on the Disney Channel series. ![]() Racial identity has never been a big deal on Sydney to the Max. ![]()
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