Greetings everyone!
Allow me to introduce myself; I'm Dr. Darrell Newton of Salisbury
University in Maryland, U.S.A.
Forgive me for contacting you folks so very "late" but I've been rather
busy teaching and researching BBC Television for several years.
Briefly, I completed a dissertation in 2002 that examines the cultural
production of West Indian immigrants by BBC Television. My research
incorporated a history of Afro-Caribbean/Black British representations
on "Auntie," the efforts of G.W. Goldie, popular programming from the 50s
until 2000, Dyke’s multiethnic agenda and BBC’s corporate diversity
policies. I’ve depended greatly upon archival research from Reading and
interviews with second generation West Indian actors, producers and
writers.
For more information, please go to http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
Recently, I was at the U of Reading in January where I gave a paper on
historiography, the "Special Inquiry" series and Goldie's efforts at
examining "race" on television. I’m hoping for several publications to
come out in the next year (including one with U of Reading), and I plan to
submit an open call proposal for SCMS in London. Improving my dis for
publication (hopefully and prayerfully) is an on-going effort.
I’ve seen (and acquired snippets of) “A Man from the Sun,” “Fable,”
BBC's "Windrush" Series and “Special Inquiry’s 'Has Britain a Color Bar?'”
However, I am seeking additional television programming from the 50s
through the 70s that examines the assimilation of West Indian immigrants
into British mainstream society.
Where might I acquire copies of some of these shows? Has additional BBC
programming become available through archival sources? Is there a source
one might recommend?
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