Q5 race representation essay plan

1. CRITICALLY EXAMINE
REPRESENTATIONS OF
‘RACE’ USING EXAMPLES
FROM THE BRITISH MEDIA
BY LILY MARRINAN

2. INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION
 History of representations
 Compared to today
 Names of examples
 Sum up to changes over time
 Sum up how examples relate to representations of race
 Explain links to readings and references

3. MAIN BODY
 2011 riots linked to Mark Duggan – relates to Richard Dyer
text ‘White’
 Dyer connects to ‘Song of the South’ – an old Hollywood film
‘Song of the South’
 Dyer challenged by Stuart Hall who uses ‘Heroes and Villains’
to talk about dif ference in race
 ‘This is England’ represents ‘thugs’ and racists
 Gramsci and idea of hegemony link class with race
 Media spreads racist ideas –eg, Winterval
 Solomos and Back talk about changes from C20 th to the
Millennium- from person’s colour to a person’s race