Task 7

Task 5

The radio extract is about the riots in Notting Hill. the radio presenter calls the black people coloured. and says that 'inter-breeding' is one of britianns biggest problems, almost calling the black people animals that shouldn't be allowed to breed with white people.During the interview they also said that immigration was a major contirbuting factor to the riots and that they hope to put an end to immigtraiton, as they believd that it would stop the problem. The radio Presenter also tries to blame the jamaican people for the riot.

 The riot is thought to have started on Friday 29 August when a gang of white youths attacked a Swedish woman, Majbritt Morrison. The youths had seen her the previous night arguing with her Jamaican husband Raymond at Latimer Road tube station. They had shouted racial insults at him and were incensed when she turned on them. Seeing her the next night, the same youths pelted her with bottles, stones and wood and struck her in the back with an iron bar, until the police intervened and she was escorted home.

Task 6

I think that Black British, describes people from the Caribbean or Africa that have travelled to Britain, normally from the second generation and people who were raised here describe themselves as 'Black Britain’. The Majority of people that came to Britain were Jamaican. This is because before the WW2 Britain still owned the biggest empire the world has ever seen, owning such countries like Caribbean but as the empire broke up the country became reluctant to allow people to immigrate. Immigrants brought with them a lot of different views and styles including, food, clothing and their accents. Immigrants assumed that they were moving to what they described as 'Motherland'. However on arrival they were shunned by many white people and they didn't socialise with them and stayed within their own racial groups in terms of going out and socialising. They lived in cramped houses sometimes 12 to a room and even when  they went out there was only a certain venues in which they were welcome.

 

During the 90's there was a specialist type of dress that  they brang to the UK, including low jeans, dashikis and afros these clothes or 'garms' are still worn by youths today. Style has really allowed integration of white people and black people because they all had the same style and they began to be seen as British rather than the colour that they were. Were as before immigrants would wear traditional clothing from their motherland, and whites would dress traditionally British, by the 90's however these lines had begun to blur. Hip-Hop and artists like 50 cent also added to image. Black style has now essentially become style, with most people dressing similarly. David Beckham had a programme dedicated to him where he was described as 'Britain’s Most Famous Blackman'. I feel that this means that Britain’s began to not so see much of the colour of a person, but the lifestyle that they live from day to day decided there race, however this is commonly called ‘Acting Black’. This is when people fulfil the stereotype of a black person without actually being black, this can vary as to the area that they were brought up in and if they live around a lot of black people.  

 

The Majority of people that came to Britain were Jamaican so they bought the dialect Patois with them. Jamaicans have begun to try and tone down the accent as they believed that it sounded too aggressive or could be too difficult to understand at least for the older generations; however the younger people embraced the language a language that is still used today. People also began to embrace the Jamaican music such as Reggae. Patois has very strong roots in slang that is used today by all of the younger generation, every race and every colour it has almost become the norm as a way to speak for teenagers.

Despite the criminal stigma attached to black people, 81% of defendants in crown court cases were white, despite this overwhelming statistics more black people were still sent to prison. The survey also said that black children tended to underachieve at school.

 

I believe that the lack of positive stereotypes really affects them as they are constantly seen as a problem, with the type of music that they bring and the crimes that they are accused of committing and what they actually do is vastly different.

Task 4

Windrush was a 4-part series of one hour television documentaries originally broadcast on BBC2 in 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the arrival in Britain of the Empire Windrush, the ship which brought the first wave of post-war West Indian immigrants.

Part 1:
On 21st June 1948 the Windrush arrived in Essex half a million immigrants came over from the carribean islands, amny of them at  this point where British Colonies. Despite their determination to stay and try to fit in wit the british nationals they felt out of place. despite feleing like they were not wanted they fought side by side with the British Army in WW2.

Part 2:
After the end of the second World War british people's attitudes changed drastically they now decided that they were no longer welcome and wanted them to go back to where they cam efrom despite all that they had done for Britain. Some Jamaicans and West Indians did eventually bow to the pressure and went home, despite their being very little work in their homeland and that being one of the main reasons that they came to Britain in the first place. On the 24th May 1948 the Windrush set sail from Kingston

Part 3:
The trip took about a month and arrived in Tilbury Harbour on the 21st June 1948.During the 1950's nearly 250,000 West Indians sailed across to Britain. On arrival they lived in an air raid shelter in Clapham Junction. They saw chimneys and assumed that they werre factories as opposed to houses so they assumed that there was alot of jobs for them to do, despite this initial disappointment there was many jibs avauilable to them after the war, and alot of dead soldiers there were always jobs available. British people didn't like them working with in their country however.

Part 4:
The white defence league was founded in 1957, and it urged the British people to 'Keep Britain White'. This really isaolated the black immigrants and they were mainly shunned by the British popualiton, deaspite the hostility they still reamined determined to stay in the country and tneded to be given the menial jobs and worked like animals for, usually, very poor pay.

Part 5:
At this point interracial relationships began to happen more, however this was still deeply frowned upon and white women were asked to leave their homes if they were found to be in a relationship with a Black man, (Flame In The Streets).

Part 6:
White women that dated black men were called Nigga Lovers.White people began to become violent and  black people began to carry weapons to feel safer as they constantly feared being attacked because of their race. West Indians began prostituting themsleves in order to save up and buy houses as their jobs paid very poorly.

Part 7:
The riot is thought to have started on Friday 29 August when a gang of white youths attacked a Swedish woman, Majbritt Morrison. The youths had seen her the previous night arguing with her Jamaican husband Raymond. The police sided with the whites during the riots even though they had started it and were the instigators. 9 white youths were arrested for their part in the riots and they were all jailed for 4 years. In may 1959 a West Indian man named Kelsa Cochrane was stabbed to death by 3 white males known as teddy boys, becasue they wore Edwordian style clothing. No one was arrested for his murder at  this point the people realised that the violence had to stop and many turned up to pay their respects at his funeral.

Part 8:
Mosely began to catcch the blame from the people who once admired him and in 1959 he decied to reitre after only receiveing 2000 votes. Ska became very popualr in the 60's a type of msuic that is still around today, as well as Jamaican music starrted to be played in clubs. A new party called the Blue Party emerged

Part 9:
Blacks and Whites were now aloud to mix but only on the dance floor, and all of a sudden it became fashionable to be seen with black people, especially to rich wihite wives. Black fmailies tried to adapt and live the 'typical' brithish way

Task 3

Mediation- Mediation is a negotiation to resolve differences between two groups, with the negotiation conducted by an impartial party.

Representaion- The description of someone or something in a particular way or as being of a certain nature.

Hegemony- Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or group of people

Colonialism- The control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people.

Post-Colonialism- A term used to describe the study of cultures who have emerged from colonial rule and who are undergoing the processes of decolonisation.

Youth Subculture- A youth subculture is a youth-based subculture with distinct styles, behaviors, and interests. Youth subcultures offer participants an identity outside of that ascribed by social institutions.

Syncretism- The merging of different inflectional varieties of a word during the development of a language.

Post-Modernism- A late 20th-century style in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism.

Urban Music- Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid-1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop,electronic dance music such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music such as reggae.

Task 2