• explores the construction of racial ‘otherness’ as an underlying presence in print media during the 70s and 80s.
• he argues that ‘ criminalised representations of black males stigmatised the black community’
• ‘there aint no black in the union jack’

bbc news – john kelly

• mutters warnings of urban decay, unemployment and violence.
• “No job to be found in this country,” one voice cries out. “The people getting angry,” booms another, ominously.
• Released on 20 June 1981 against a backdrop of rising unemployment, its blend of melancholy, unease and menace took on an entirely new meaning when Britain’s streets erupted into rioting almost three weeks later – the day before Ghost Town reached number one in the charts.