Racial Otherness:

• underlying presence within print media during 1970s-80s arguing that criminalised reputations of black males often stigmatised the black community.
• wrote the book ” There ain’t no black in the union jack”
• anxieties regarding immigrant behaviour in the UK after WW2 in which post-war wave of immigration from the West Indies.
• draws attention to “Lurid newspaper reports of black pimps living off immoral earnings of white women”
• produced racial representations that were “fixed in a matrix between the imagery of squalor and that of sordid sexuality”

Post Colonial melancholia- the deep rooted shame felt as a result of the loss of the British empire. In media the loss is deflected through nostalgia and anxieties surrounding British identity.

The story of UK race relations post W.W. 2- talks about the worries of immigrant behaviour in the post-war wave of immigration from the West Indies. Public associated these immigrants with the substandard living conditions.

Legacy of the empire- Gilroy suggests we live in “morbid culture of a once-imperial nation that has not been able to accept it’s inevitable loss of prestige”. British are undergoing a crisis of national identity. Empire immigrants and their descendants, is argued to be a visible representation of British power as it once was.

The Search for Albion – Albion England is nothing more than a distracting fantasy that disguises the reality of what Britain is really like – crippled by regional poverty and an ever-widening economic social divide.