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The first high-quality history of race relations and television.
Contains new archive research from the BBC, ITV and the government and numerous original interviews
Relevant to high-profile stories under discussion, about censorship, relations between media and state, race relations, and re-opens the discussion about the representation of Black and Asian people on TV, about the handling of the BNP, and about the rights and wrongs of making jokes about race
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"Schaffer's training and expertise comes through in the carefully constructed chronological narratives in the individual chapters which he writes. ... The book tells us much about the power of television, the attitudes of the elites who controlled TV and the inherent nature of racism in post-war Britain. It would be impossible to teach a course on contemporary Britain without using The Vision of a Nation." - Contemporary British History
"Schaffer's study ... builds on existing work by scholars like Sarita Malik, Stephen Bourne, Karen Ross and Darrell Newton, but adds a good deal that is new, in what is a well-researched, copiously referenced and excellently presented historical account." - European Journal of Communication
"The sources used are extensive and impressive. ... [A] very readable and thoroughly researched volume on a complex and often contentious topic. It should be of interest to students and researchers of media and cultural studies together with historians of modern Britain." - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Birmingham, UK
Gavin Schaffer
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Vision of a Nation
Book Subtitle: Making Multiculturalism on British Television, 1960-80
Authors: Gavin Schaffer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314888
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29297-0Published: 30 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29298-7Published: 30 May 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31488-8Published: 20 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 299
Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural History, History of Britain and Ireland, Media Studies, Social History, Modern History