Public service media and race relations in postcolonial Britain: BBC and immigrant programming, 1965–1988

IF 2.3 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
J. Giese, Diwas Bisht, Aswin Punathambekar
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This article explores how British Asians negotiated the politics of race in the formative years of British broadcasting from the 1960s to the 1980s. Marked by significant changes within the BBC and British society at large, this period saw the first institutional initiatives oriented towards Caribbean and Asian communities. Drawing on primary research materials from the BBC Written Archives, we analyse the Immigrant Programmes Unit and the Immigrant Programme Advisory Committees as sites where ideas of race, ethnicity and citizenship were continually debated and worked out. We argue that the BBC functioned as a profoundly asymmetrical contact zone in which British Asians’ efforts to counter assimilationist ideas and programmes were stymied by senior managers working with deeply ingrained ideas of cultural, ethnic and racial differences. Immigrants would be accommodated, but in ways that would not challenge the viewing habits of the majority or imagine solidarities across racial, ethnic and national lines.
后殖民时期英国的公共服务媒体与种族关系:1965-1988年BBC与移民节目
本文探讨了在20世纪60年代至80年代英国广播的形成时期,亚裔英国人是如何处理种族政治问题的。这一时期,英国广播公司和整个英国社会发生了重大变化,首次出现了面向加勒比和亚洲社区的制度性举措。根据英国广播公司书面档案的主要研究材料,我们分析了移民项目单位和移民项目咨询委员会作为种族、民族和公民身份观念不断辩论和制定的场所。我们认为,BBC的功能是一个极不对称的接触区,在这里,亚裔英国人反对同化主义思想和节目的努力受到高级管理人员的阻碍,这些管理人员有着根深蒂固的文化、民族和种族差异观念。移民将得到接纳,但不会挑战大多数人的观看习惯,也不会让人联想到跨越种族、民族和国家界限的团结。
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期刊介绍: Media, Culture & Society provides a major international forum for the presentation of research and discussion concerning the media, including the newer information and communication technologies, within their political, economic, cultural and historical contexts. It regularly engages with a wider range of issues in cultural and social analysis. Its focus is on substantive topics and on critique and innovation in theory and method. An interdisciplinary journal, it welcomes contributions in any relevant areas and from a worldwide authorship.
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