Dear White People is an intelligent, progressive, and comedic new Netflix series which sheds light on modern day race relations in a supposedly post-racial world. Based on the 2014 film of the same name, the series is split up into ten episodes, each of which are filmed through a different character's point of view. Set in a fictional Ivy League University, the series centers around a group of African American students, from various black student organizations on campus, fighting for change in light of a recent University scandal involving a black face party.

The theme and name of the party, "Dear Black People," was inspired by the campus radio show, of emerging leader and film student, Sam White, in which she aims to bluntly and unapologetically address white students whose ignorance and/or hatred continues to perpetuate racial stigmas and inequalities that impact the lives of other black students at Winchester University. While flyers had previously been distributed throughout campus advertising this “Dear Black People” party, many students had not expected or anticipated the party to consist of lawn jockey decor, and white students wearing black face, portraying negative racial stereotypes, and participating in other various acts of cultural appropriation and racism. As the series unfolds, we begin to see an amalgam of race related issues rise to the surface. Taking on the realities of police brutality and gun violence, light skin privilege, internalized racism, and the tendency for institutions to silence black students in the wake of injustice, creator, Justin Simien, effectively interweaves comedy with modern day racism, identity politics, and the never-ending fight for equality and respect.