252 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of 'South Asians' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, 'sacred soaps' such as the Mahabharata, and family videos of rites of passage, as well as mainstream American films. Television, Ethnicity and... Read more
Introduction Cultural change: British, Asian and black identities, Remaking ethnicity, About this book 1 Southall: Chota Punjab, west London 2 Living fieldwork – writing ethnography 3 Local uses of the media: Negotiating culture and identity 4 Coming of age in Southall: TV news talk 5 Neighbours and gossip: Kinship, courtship and community 6 Cool bodies: TV ad talk
Biography
Marie Gillespie is Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Wales, Swansea. She is the Diaspora Literary and Media Cultures project co-ordinator for the ESRC Transnational Communities Programme at the University of Oxford.
