Conceptualising and Evaluating Racism in Media Representation

Abstract

Race has been a newsworthy topic of particular interest in Britain, Western Europe and the USA for over two hundred and fifty years.The news media have, over this time, been a key site for the representation of ideas about racialised groups, providing a mass of speculation, commentary and information. This cultural archive provides an immense store of knowledge, values and images that have assisted in the maintenance and reproduction of both racist and Anti–Racist ideas, which fuse in both historical and contemporary forms of racial ambivalence.