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From White Teeth to Britz: Multi-Ethnic Britain on British Primetime Television in the 2000s
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Korte, Barbara |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | This article takes a look at the UK’s politics of ethnicity and its repercussions in television culture after the year 2000. It focuses on fictional programmes aired by the major national channels. What can be observed in such mainstream productions is a significant shift in the representation of multi-ethnic Britain over the course of less than a decade. White Teeth (2002), the adaptation of Zadie Smith’s bestselling novel, was offered as a deliberately popular product and seems to have been unaffected by growing resentment against Muslim Asians, even though it was produced and broadcast after 9/11 and the Midlands ‘riots’ of 2001. The spirit in which White Teeth was made and presented to its original audience contrasts with the more critical and differentiating stance towards multi-ethnic Britain discernible in primetime productions of subsequent years, such as Second Generation (2003) and Britz (2007). |
| Starting Page | 227 |
| Ending Page | 240 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 34 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://periodicals.narr.de/index.php/aaa/article/download/507/485 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
