Representing Black Britain
eBook - PDF

Representing Black Britain

Black and Asian Images on Television

  1. 202 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Representing Black Britain

Black and Asian Images on Television

About this book

`This is one of the most important books on race, representation and politics to come along in a decade…. Sarita Malik?s book is a brilliant contribution to the literature on race, cultural studies and public pedagogy? - Henry Giroux, Penn State University

Representing Black Britain offers a critical history of Black and Asian representation on British television from the earliest days of broadcasting to the present day. Working through programmes as wide-ranging as the early documentaries to `ethnic sitcoms? and youth television, this book provides a detailed analysis of shifting institutional contexts, images of `race? and ethnic-minority cultural politics in modern Britain.

Representing Black Britain: focuses on issues of representation, ideology, `race? and difference; covers a spectrum of television genres including documentary, news, comedy, light entertainment, youth television, drama, film and sport; examines the sociopolitical context of Black Britain; and looks at questions of policy and the institutional context of British broadcasting.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 - Representation, history and 'black britain': question of context
  7. Chapter 2 - The racialization of the black subject in television documentary
  8. Chapter 3 - The institutionalization of the black voice on television: questions of access, multicultural programming and cultural diversity
  9. Chapter 4 - The packing of black identities in television news narratives
  10. Chapter 5 - 'Is it 'cos i is black?': the black situation in television comedy
  11. Chapter 6 - Light entertainment on television - and the black-british cultures it is missing
  12. Chapter 7 - Reflections on black masculinities and british sporting culture on television
  13. Chapter 8 - Casting the black subject in television drama
  14. Chapter 9 - Pounds, policy and pressure: black-british filmmaking - 'as seen on tv'
  15. Chapter 10 - The struggle for meanings of 'blackness': summary and conclusion
  16. Bibliography