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1. Robert Ferguson, (1998) Arnold Hoddle Headline Group

"Wars, murders, racist attacks are part of the seemingly endless flow of media representation of black British teens"
"Black British teens who in which later associate in gangs are often reported in the media as a modern issue"
2. Striniatic, Dominic: (1995) by Routledge

"The gangster film has a number of features which can usefully be explored by younger teenagers".
"The gangster film is about law, street crime and young black teenagers".

3. Wignall, Paul - Prejudice & Difference (2000) - Reed Educational and Professional Publishing ltd.
"Black people make up only 5% of the United Kingdom's population. However, over 50% of the prison population is black and 40% of the black population is unemployed".

4. Malik, Sarita (2002) Representing Black Britain: Black and Asian Images on Television: London. Sage Publications
“Race or racism is a problem which only arrived when ‘the Blacks’ did, that Britain was inherently homogenous and conflict-free before ‘the Blacks’ came”.

5. Clark, Vivienne. Baker, James. Lewis, Eileen (2003) Key Concepts & Skills for Media Studies: London. Hodder Headline
“There is a constant struggle between the dominant groups’ need to sustain their position and the subordinate groups’ attempts to gain recognition and status”.

6. Casey, Bernadette. Casey, Neil. Calvert, Ben. French, Liam. Lewis, Justin (2003): Television Studies: The Key Concepts: New York. Routledge

“Stereotyping as a mechanism is persistent; the form stereotypes take must change with shifting cultural norms and expectations”.

“This ‘we are all alike’ approach can run the risk of ignoring specific cultural conditions in the effort to provide pleasant, acceptable images for an assumed ‘mainstream’ audience and raises a number of questions”

7. Bignell, John (2004): An introduction to Television Studies. New York, NY: Routledge
“serial invites its viewers to make sense of questions of ethnicity and in particular, how it defines ethnic difference and inequality or racism”.