Review of Darrell Newton, Paving the Empire Road, BBC Television and Black Britons

Abstract

In Paving the Empire Road, BBC Television and Black Britons, Darrell Newton provides an insightful, exhaustive analysis of the ways in which the BBC, and beyond it other TV channels, have debated, integrated, projected, stereotyped non-whites on screen. The many references to other channels -notably ITV, Channel Four- in the last chapters are in fact so many pointers to the strong path dependence on decisions, policies, perceptions, approaches within the BBC, the latter providing in Newton’s ...