Blackfishing the Jesy Nelson case

"Jesy Nelson ‘blackfishing’ controversy: How to appreciate – not appropriate – black culture" 

Independent.

Was 1st TV interracial kiss 1968 Star Trek?

In a word ... no!

But it was William Shatner...

'He shared the first interracial kiss on US network television

Well, kind of. Six years after playing a bigot in Roger Corman’s The Intruder – an unflinching look at racial tensions in the south, which many theatres were afraid to run – Shatner and Nichelle Nichols, a Black woman who played the role of Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, shared a somewhat obscured kiss in the 1968 episode Plato’s Stepchildren. (He later claimed they didn’t actually touch lips; she says they did.) Though the clinch became well known as a US television first, various other earlier interracial kisses have since come to light – though by a weird twist of fate, the first of these also involved Shatner: with France Nuyen in a scene from a Broadway production called The World of Suzie Wong that was aired on the Ed Sullivan show in 1958.' (Guardian)

GUARDIAN SURVEY ON RACIAL BIAS

From football to dating to TV: 10 areas rife with racial bias in UK https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/03/from-football-to-dating-to-tv-10-areas-rife-with-racial-bias-in-uk?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger

MAGAZINE COVERS Content analysis shows few BAME cover stars

Glossies so white: the data that reveals the problem with British magazine covers https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/10/glossy-magazine-covers-too-white-models-black-ethnic-minority?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger

OfCom say TV failing to represent modern UK society

Ofcom chief tells UK broadcasters to reflect 'society as it is today' http://gu.com/p/4cfzp?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger

Playlist of past/practice clips

You can use these to set yourself practice exercises - feel free to hand in any subsequent essays for marking and feedback:

Practice clip: Hotel Babylon (not the exam clip)