Paving the Empire Road

BBC Television and West Indian Immigration

Bibliographic Data

ID19989801
AuthorsDarrell Mottley Newton
Year2011
Pages267
Publication date2011-10-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePaving The Empire Road Bbc Television And Black Britons (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWinchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.7228/manchester/9780719081675.001.0001
OpenAlexW4212902550
Open LibraryOL26058057M
ISBN9780719081675
LanguageEN
Citations received14

This book provides an institutional case study of the BBC Television Service, as it undertook the responsibility of creating programmes that addressed the impact of black Britons, their attempts to establish citizenship within England and subsequent issues of race relations and colour prejudice. Beginning in the 1930s and into the post millennium, the book provides a historical analysis of policies invoked, and practices undertaken, as the Service attempted to assist white Britons in understanding the impact of African-Caribbeans on their lives, and their assimilation into constructs of Britishness. Management soon approved talks and scientific studies as a means of examining racial tensions, as ITV challenged the discourses of British broadcasting. Soon after, BBC 2 began broadcasting, and more issues of race appeared on the TV screens, each reflecting sometimes comedic, somewhat dystopic, often problematic circumstances of integration. In the years that followed, however, social tensions, such as those demonstrated by the Nottingham and Notting Hill riots, led to transmissions that included a series of news specials on Britain's Colour Bar, and docudramas, such as A Man From the Sun, which attempted to frame the immigrant experience for British television audiences, but from the African-Caribbean point of view. Subsequent chapters include an extensive analysis of television programming, along with personal interviews. Topics include current representations of race, the future of British television, and its impact upon multiethnic audiences. Also detailed are the efforts of Black Britons working within the British media as employees of the BBC, writers, producers and actors

Black British · Britishness · Citizenship · Immigration · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term) · Sociology · White (mutation) · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · British Broadcasting Corporation · Caribbean area · Colonies · emigration and immigration · Public opinion · race relations · Social aspects · Television and politics · Television broadcasting · West indians

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