Hi everyone,
Please forgive the shameless plug, but I wanted to make you aware of my book's release.
Paving the empire road: BBC Television and Black Britons
Darrell Mottley Newton
"Within Paving the Empire Road: BBC Television and Black Britons, an institutional case study of the BBC Television Service occurs, 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, Newton 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, 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, BBC 2 began broadcasting; and more issues of race appeared on the screens of viewers, each reflecting sometimes comedic, somewhat dystopic, often problematic circumstances of integration. In the years that followed however, social tensions such as 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 that 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."
Contents include:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Radio, race, and the Television Service
2. Television programming and social impact
3. Voices of contention and BBC programming
4. A Black eye
5. Contemporary voices from within
Selected Bibliography
Index
Macnhester plans to release it this month. Thanks!
Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor
The Department of Communication Arts
Salisbury University
260 Fulton Hall
Salisbury, MD 21801
(410) 677-5060 Office
(410) 543-6229 Department
http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor
The Department of Communication Arts
Salisbury University
260 Fulton Hall
Salisbury, MD 21801
(410) 677-5060 Office
(410) 543-6229 Department
http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
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Founding Capitalism in the Bajáo and Spanish North America
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