racial otherness- Gilroys study of black representation ‘there aint no black in the union jack’ focuses on the story of UK race relationships from WW2. The immigration from the west indies caused anxieties.

post-colonial melancholia- substandard living conditions produced racial representations. There were intensified fears that immigrant communities would fill up Britain.

quotes- john Kelly

 a depiction of social breakdown that provided the soundtrack to an explosion of civil unrest.

“It was clear that something was very, very, wrong,”