Saha, A. orcid.org/0000-0001-7704-2493 (2024) Return to innocence? Diaspora screen media and “New Ethnicities” in the moment of diversity. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 60 (2). pp. 135-149. ISSN 1744-9855
Abstract
This article revaluates Stuart Hall’s influential essay “New Ethnicities” for the study of diaspora screen media. In “New Ethnicities”, published in 1988, Hall famously declares that we have reached the “end of innocence”, having identified a shift in how race was then being articulated in the work of a new generation of British-born black and Asian film-makers. However, while Hall was excited by the promise of these new ethnicities, this article argues that there has been a shift back to the previous state of innocence, a consequence of racial neo-liberalism and the emergence of “diversity” discourse. The remainder of the article examines the implications of this reversal for research on the representation of race. While Hall’s optimism may have been premature, the article argues that “New Ethnicities” nonetheless contains a mode of critical enquiry that is crucial to our understanding of contemporary diaspora screen media in this moment of diversity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). |
Keywords: | Stuart Hall; new ethnicities; politics of representation; diversity; diaspora; media |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2024 12:30 |
Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2024 13:47 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17449855.2024.2312360 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:208234 |
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