Review of Sarita Malik's “Representing Black Britain. A History of Black and Asian Images on British Television” (London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2002)

Abstract

Sarita Malik's Representing Black Britain is an important contribution to SAGE's series Culture, Representation and Identities which is dedicated to a particular understanding of 'cultural studies' as an inherently interdisciplinary project critically concerned with the analysis of cultural meaning. Representing Black Britain focuses on the medium of British television as the site where primarily White cultural meanings are produced and circulated. Drawing on Stuart Hall's notion of a 'racialized regime of representation' Malik not only aims at exploring key ways in which racial identities are constructed within British television representation, but also attempts to identify processes of organizing, producing, and communicating such representations of racial identities through the medium of television.