Not a Pretty Picture: Ethnic Minority Views of Television

by Bob Mullan and Robert Mullan

Book Overview

Originally published in 1996, ethnic minorities in the UK made up over 5% of the population yet were hardly represented in the hundreds of hours of terrestrial broadcast television each week. The blatant racism of The Black and White Minstrel Show was over, but more subtle forms of racism were piped into our living rooms in an endless stream of white-dominated programming. 'Comedies' and soaps presented non-whites as a sort of joke humanity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032234644
• ISBN13: 9781032234649
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 124 Pages