'How is the recent broadcasting of the BBC documentary 'The Secret Policeman' relevant to the continuing struggle for the advancement of non-whites in Britain?'
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0149068 SELF DEVISED QUESTION: 'How is the recent broadcasting of the BBC documentary 'The Secret Policeman' relevant to the continuing struggle for the advancement of non-whites in Britain?' On Tuesday 21st October 2003, the BBC's documentary The Secret Policeman was broadcast to approximately 5 million viewers in Britain. Mark Daly, an undercover reporter had spent seven months posing as a fellow trainee at the Bruche National Training Centre in Cheshire to film an exposé on racism among police recruits. The film not only provided evidence of police racism but also highlighted the stereotypical representations of Black identity within Western ideology. In this essay I propose to investigate how the British media's representation of Blacks has, rather than reflecting reality, constructed it. My research predominantly focuses on evidence gathered from racial reports and theories of the 1980's until the present day and examines the development, if any, within race representation in the media....


