How is British Television negatively representing black people?

Angle:

By not having many black people have their own TV show, but when they are shown on television, they are portrayed stereotypically; does this impact the audiences’ impression on black people?

How positive is a representation of an archetypal (universal understood symbol) African-American shown on television?

Hypothesis:

Black people are constantly represented negatively throughout the British television which alters the way audiences perceive them.

Linked-style production piece:

I will be working with Ruby and we will be doing a short documentary style production, which will include mini interviews which express feelings and thoughts for this particular topic also include facts and example from the 3 media platforms.

Media texts: For

Little black Sambo (1935): demonstrates rigid, reductive stereotyping. But back in 1935 it was seen as harmless entertainment.

Tyler Perry movies: Daddy’s little girls, Good Deeds…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/02/black-british-tv-drama-online  

“Whether the fault lies with commissioners or writers, the fact remains that the spectrum of blackness on TV is narrow, and has remained almost stagnant in the last decade or so.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9051992/Young-black-actors-should-go-to-America.html

"Unfortunately there really aren't that many roles for authoritative, strong, black characters in this country. We just don't write those characters, that's a fact."

http://madamenoire.com/104363/the-persistent-issue-of-black-representation-on-television-and-why-more-roles-wont-fix-a-thing/

“If a show does feature black folks, they are usually one-dimensional, sidekicks of the lead character or the rapist/murderer/gang-banger on Law & Order.”

http://revisionworld.co.uk/a2-level-level-revision/sociology/mass-media-0/media-representations-age-social-class-ethnicity-gender-sexuality-and-disability

“There’s an idea that programmes contain characters from ethnic minority groups purely because they ‘should’.”

“Ethnic minority audiences complain that Black and Asian people are rarely shown as ordinary citizens who just happen to be Black or Asian.”

Media texts: Against

http://commons.emich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1055&context=mcnair

http://www.salon.com/2000/04/19/images/

Daily Mail article on the Olympics:

“This was supposed to be a representation of modern life in England but it is likely to be a challenge for the organisers to find an educated white middle-aged mother and black father living together with a happy family in such a set-up.”

Academic Texts:

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks

Aimé Césaire: Notebook of the Return Native Land

SHEP:

Social

Changes how people may see black people

Racism

Historical

Issues/Debates:

Representation and stereotyping

Media effects