Black Women and the Media in Britain
This chapter outlines media developments and key matters concerning the on screen depiction of Black women in Britain in recent decades. It draws on material accessed at the Black Cultural Archives (BCA) in Brixton, London and the Spare Rib digital archive at the British Library. This chapter discusses self representing and organising in relation to Black women and the media. The discussion explores the politics of representation in connection with superficiality, conceptualisations of Black women's media experiences and television representations, as well as the influence of variations regarding regionality and rurality. This chapter emphasises that due to the geo culturally and socio politically specific setting of Britain and its consititutive nations work focused on the lives of Black women (t)here demands a critical lens that is sensitive to this context's various characteristics.