Sheet Summaries

The Colour of Money:

• 7.9% of the UK population is made up of people from ethnic minorities, excluding the adversiting industry
• 2001 census shows that ethic minority communities have grown by over 50% since the last census in 1991, whereas the white community has seen a drop in numbers
• The British acknowledge asians as 'aspirational, hard-working economically powerful.
• In the past decade, there has also seen an enourmous growth in economic minority media. The South Asian alone has 18 dedicated TV channels, six commerical radio stations and a ever-growing number of English language print titles and websites all aimed at third generation Asians
• The UK is now truly a mulicultural country. In the same way that there is a pink pound and a grey pound, there is without doubt a brown pound.

Subcontinetal drift:

• The oriental stereotype/asian invisibilty are over, in place, social cultural and artistic "revolution" (Nitin Sawhney)
• 2nd/3rd generation, between both times -developing, no tokenism
• Cross over (music) Cornershop, Tlavin Singh (TV) 'Goodness Gracious Me', Gurinder Chadha, 'The Kumars at No.42, Life is not all ha ha he he (film) 'Anita and Me', 'Bend it like Beckham', 'East is East', 'Bride and Prejudice' (book) 'Buddha of Subrurbia', Hanit Kuriesh
• Reverse Enthocentralism
• Hybridity, (Homi Bhabha)- "Third space"
• Asians are less marginalised (less pushed aside), more mainstream