'The Limits of Racial Representation: Race, Culture, & Media' Herman Gray & Anamik Saha
Channel: CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity
Date: 2022-07-12

Recording of Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) webinar. See https://www.ethnicity.ac.uk/ for more. 

Title: 'The Limits of Racial Representation: Race, Culture, & Media' 

A conversation between Herman Gray (UC Santa Cruz) and Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths).

Summary: How has the politics of racial representation changed in the past thirty years? Professor Herman Gray and Dr Anamik Saha discuss the prospects and limits of representation, in light of changing political commitments to visibility and representation as routes to social equity.

Gray and Saha consider what the limits of racial representation mean for media studies, industrial responses, and activist mobilisation. In particular, they address the shifting conditions of production and distribution engendered by digital platforms. The conversation touches on the complexities of global financing partnerships, Black diasporic alliances, and white racial grievances. Equally, it considers the particularities of the UK policy context whilst situating it in global and comparative perspective.

Please note: this recording finishes stops before the end of the conversation due to technical difficulties.