{"product_id":"paving-the-empire-road-bbc-television-and-black-britons-9781526143617","title":"Paving the Empire Road: BBC Television and Black","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning in the 1930s and moving into the post millennium, this book provides a historical analysis of the policies and practices established by the BBC as it attempted to assist white Britons in adjusting to the presence of African-Caribbeans. Among the themes the book explores are current representations of race, the future of British television and its impact on multi-ethnic audiences. The chapters include an extensive analysis of television programming, along with personal interviews that reveal the efforts of black Britons working for the BBC, whether as writers, producers or actors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Paving the Empire Road assembles Newton's considerable research at the BBC Written Archive Centre and his consultation of written documents including memoranda, letters and corresponding policy decisions, along with programme transcripts and synopses. Newton contributes a nuanced approach that foregrounds internal developments and issues at the BBC and links texts with context - an endeavour that is at its richest when mapping the early post-war years that coincided with postcolonial immigration.\"\u003cbr\u003eSarita Malik, Brunel University, \u003ci\u003eCritical Studies in Television\u003c\/i\u003e 9\/1, 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Newton's substantial scholarship deserves a wide audience.  \u003ci\u003ePaving the Empire Road\u003c\/i\u003e ends provocatively, citing an unspecified report on the challenges the BBC faces regarding \"a positive acceptance of cultural diversity\" and offering an unanswered question: is this a problem of a few months, or a few decades, ago?  The conclusion invokes \"meaningful changes\", while seeming sceptical of the gradual evolution it has explored: from the BBC's \"somewhat noble\" public encouragement of assimilation and tolerance, to investigation of its own diversity issues.  \"Before, we would just moan at the television\", the actor Treva Etienne says, remarking on the evolving black consciousness of the power to transform media images.  Faced with the complexity of the BBC's workings, no reader of Darrell Newton's study dare \"just moan\" about the slowness or the inevitability of change.'\u003cbr\u003eVahni Capildeo, \u003ci\u003eTLS, \u003c\/i\u003e18 January 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Newton draws together a wealth of information from the rich records of the BBC's Written Archives, material that will prove invaluable to researchers exploring television as such, as well as those primarily interested in the experiences of black people in it. Newton's book also provides a forum for prominent media professionals (many of whom he interviewed) to express their views about how black Britons can best ensure a more balanced presence in British television in the future.'\u003cbr\u003eAnne Spry Rush, University of Maryland\u003ci\u003e, American Historical Review, 13 \u003c\/i\u003eAugust 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'...this academic study is an important contribution towards themapping and understanding of the history of black participation within Britishtelevision...His factual description manages to highlight how broadcasting choices with relation to race in the UK-not only BBC 1 and 2 but also ITV, Channel 4 and other networks-have generally reflected the problematic issues of assimilation and multiculturalism,which underlay British post-colonial society.'\u003cbr\u003eCarla Mereu, University of Reading, \u003ci\u003eHistorical Journal of Film, Radio and Television\u003c\/i\u003e, 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Paving the Empire Road assembles Newton's considerable research at the BBC Written Archive Centre and his consultation of written documents including memoranda, letters and corresponding policy decisions, along with programme transcripts and synopses. Newton contributes a nuanced approach that foregrounds internal developments and issues at the BBC and links texts with context - an endeavour that is at its richest when mapping the early post-war years that coincided with postcolonial immigration.'\u003cbr\u003eSarita Malik, Brunel University, \u003ci\u003eCritical Studies in Television\u003c\/i\u003e 9.1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Newton's \u003ci\u003ePaving the Empire Road \u003c\/i\u003eis best read as a series of discoveries about the BBC's communication with various ethnic associations and black activists through a series of experimental services, conferences and programming. Newton assembles a vast array of programming notes, transcripts of meetings and documented discussions that reveal that the BBC irregularly but consistently elicited the advice and suggestions of West Indian and South Asian community leaders. These findings are, simply put, archival gems.'\u003cbr\u003eBrett Bebber, Old Dominion University, \u003ci\u003eJournal of British Cinema and Television\u003c\/i\u003e 13.1 (2016)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Radio, race, and the Television Service \u003cbr\u003e2 Television programming and social impact\u003cbr\u003e3 Voices of contention and BBC programming\u003cbr\u003e4 A Black eye\u003cbr\u003e5 Contemporary voices from within\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041004781911,"sku":"9781526143617","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526143617.jpg?v=1750948571","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/paving-the-empire-road-bbc-television-and-black-britons-9781526143617","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}