Alerting colleagues to a new publication:
Postcolonial Media Culture in Britain (edited by
Rosalind Brunt and Rinella Cere) and published by Palgrave, Macmillan.
Extract from the Preface
The book addresses the tangled histories of
postcolonialism and their impact on Britain. It
bears witness to newly emerging practices and
discourses that deserve to be both celebrated
and rigorously analysed. But it also does not
shy away from confronting the colonial legacies
that continue to produce marginalization and
exclusion. Hence the bookâ??s concern to
scrutinize equal opportunity policies of
multiculturalism and diversity as applied to
media and to pick apart contemporary textual
representations of ethnic community cultures
that bespeak racist rhetoric ? however
unwittingly deployed. Drawing on postcolonial
theory throughout, the book takes to heart its
crucial insight that, while â??another world is
possibleâ??, the dominant culture in Britain
continues to draw on repertoires of restrictive
and racially oppressive discourse.
Book content
1. Postcolonial and Media Studies: A Cognitive Mapping
Rinella Cere
2. The Politics of Hip-Hop and Cultural
Resistance: a British-Asian Perspective
Amir Saeed
3. Alien Nation: Contemporary Art in Black Britain
Leon Wainwright
4. Mainstreaming Cultural Diversity: Public
Service Policy and British Reality Television
Sarita Malik
5. Voicing the Community: Participation and
Change in Black and Minority Ethnic Local UK Radio
Caroline Mitchell
6. From Mosque to YouTube: UK Muslims Go Online
Gary Bunt
7. â??What a Burkha!â??: Reflections on the UK
Media Coverage of the Sharia Law Controversy
Rosalind Brunt
8. Engaging Theory, Making Films: Radical Black Cinema in Britain
Chi-Yun Shin
9. Youâ??ve Been Framed: Stereotyping and Performativity in Yasmin
Peter Morey
10. Discourses of Separation: News and
Documentary Representations of Muslims in Britain
Myra Macdonald
11. Debating Contemporary Postcolonial Theory:
the Limitations of a Culturalist Approach
Christopher Pawling
