Race, racism, and TV links
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My plans to do a couple of longer postings this year have fallen through, so what I'd like to is to share with you some of the links I bookmarked when researching my essay for a forthcoming volume of Time, Unincorporated. I'll group them into broad subject areas. Here goes:
BBC
Britain's most popular television programmes 'too white', says Trevor Phillips Telegraph, 16 July 2008.
Too many black and Asian faces on TV, says BBC director Samir Shah. Guardian, 26 June 2008.
Comedian attacks TV chiefs over lack of ethnic diversity. Guardian, 8 February 2008.
TV's McGovern calls BBC 'racist' BBC News, 31 August 2007.
UK History
From the Beeb, the Race UK subsite
From the National Archives: Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration in England
The Anti-Slavery Society's page on Slavery in England
And via the British Library: The First Asians in Britain
US Culture
NAACP Report Finds TV Networks Lagging in Diversity, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 December 2008. (The report, Out of Focus - Out of Sync, is available online as a PDF.)
Black Women: Wise Best Friends To White Women Everywhere. Jezebel, 29 August 2007.
Bridal Magazines Seem To Think Black Women Don't Get Married. Racialicious, 14 December 2006.
I want you to want me, Salon, 30 July 2005 (and letters responding to the article).
Why Can't A Black Actress Play The Girlfriend?. Newsweek, 14 March 2005
Hollywood distorts black romance. USA Today, 34 March 2004.
Love in Black and White. New York Times, 26 January 2003.
Interracial Intimacy. The Atlantic, December 2002.
Trying to Get Beyond the Role of the Maid. New York Times, 17 May 2002.
There's also an interesting article on interracial screen romance at the Starpulse site, but every time I visit it, it sticks a Trojan on my computer! >:(
My plans to do a couple of longer postings this year have fallen through, so what I'd like to is to share with you some of the links I bookmarked when researching my essay for a forthcoming volume of Time, Unincorporated. I'll group them into broad subject areas. Here goes:
BBC
Britain's most popular television programmes 'too white', says Trevor Phillips Telegraph, 16 July 2008.
Too many black and Asian faces on TV, says BBC director Samir Shah. Guardian, 26 June 2008.
Comedian attacks TV chiefs over lack of ethnic diversity. Guardian, 8 February 2008.
TV's McGovern calls BBC 'racist' BBC News, 31 August 2007.
UK History
From the Beeb, the Race UK subsite
From the National Archives: Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration in England
The Anti-Slavery Society's page on Slavery in England
And via the British Library: The First Asians in Britain
US Culture
NAACP Report Finds TV Networks Lagging in Diversity, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 December 2008. (The report, Out of Focus - Out of Sync, is available online as a PDF.)
Black Women: Wise Best Friends To White Women Everywhere. Jezebel, 29 August 2007.
Bridal Magazines Seem To Think Black Women Don't Get Married. Racialicious, 14 December 2006.
I want you to want me, Salon, 30 July 2005 (and letters responding to the article).
Why Can't A Black Actress Play The Girlfriend?. Newsweek, 14 March 2005
Hollywood distorts black romance. USA Today, 34 March 2004.
Love in Black and White. New York Times, 26 January 2003.
Interracial Intimacy. The Atlantic, December 2002.
Trying to Get Beyond the Role of the Maid. New York Times, 17 May 2002.
There's also an interesting article on interracial screen romance at the Starpulse site, but every time I visit it, it sticks a Trojan on my computer! >:(