Black Britain: Radio Broadcast

Culture:

• Parents
• Food
• Fashion 
• Heritage 
• Way of talking - accents
• Music 

Especially the way of talking and music is now a part of everyday life for even white people - white and black culture are mixing slightly (words and way of talking)

White people that grow up around Black British people that are influenced by their own parents, are acting slightly like the stereotypical Black person

History - first hand accounts

• Citizens of British Empire came to the motherland to fulfil their dreams of jobs
• 'everything was arranged, I came on a boat... taken to our various hostpitals' - check ups made on all immigrants
• 'I expected to find the quality of life much better' (Jamaican immigrant)
• People of colour not allowed in certain venues - went to own black dominated places - beginning of the Black British Culture (dancing, socialising, house parties, youth centres)
• In a way, it was this culture that gained interest in them from people and in a contemporary time is copied
• Dressing well on Sundays especially, fashion was a big thing - cultural clothe

Second Generation

• new way, mixing the two cultures together
• Jackson 5
• be a part of the 60s revolution 
• mixing the dress, afro/jeans
• early 80s the second generation was looking to Britain to mix their own styles more with British styles - still proud of being Black
• Music was mixing

Black Style: 

• Now more just 'style'
• Low hanging jeans particularly
• puffa jackets 
• where references were coming from was not being recognised - only borrowed from Black Culture

'Acting Black'

• If following Black culture seen to be following the stereotypical behaviour - even if white.
• If people are talking like Black British people 'acting black' they are expected to be bad people
• Is seen as a bad thing, even though it is popular with young people, to act like a stereotypical black person
• depends where the young people come from - they could be in a black British dominated area
• Taking black words and changing it to slang - many words don't mean what the did in their countries 
• 'Ya know what I mean?' phrases used by everyone are pronounced in a traditionally Caribbean way.
• multi ethnic - Using Jamaican/Caribbean accents can just mean one is young and from a big city in England 
• Younger generations only, not older generations

Black achievements/downfalls

• Black boys are generally underachieving in comparison to white counterparts
• culture of gangster has come in
• many of their dads are still in other countries - they have no male role models 
• First thing that come to mind with Black British - crime, gangsters, bad aspects
• Media only portrays the bad of Black people - makes it hard for young people to want to change
• Gun crime, drugs and alienation are all parts of poverty but young, black people are mainly alienated because of the media's representation - they live up to IT

Black Music

• Videos to black music degrades women and glorifies criminal activity such as gangs, guns, knifes
• though Reggae is very popular with Britain - indentation is now permanent 
• Drum and Bass, Grime, R&B, Hip-Hop are all black styles that have been adapted
• Not black owned any more - reliant on everybody liking it