2021 | 20 | Race and European TV Histories
This special issue on race and European television will begin the work of documenting and understanding the many ways in which television has both perpetuated and critically interrogated racialized regimes in Europe and in European countries’ ongoing relationships to their postcolonial geopolitical spheres. We have a dual goal for this issue: to break the silence and begin to describe, both retroactively and with a look to the future, television’s specific roles in visualizing, naturalizing, subverting and silencing race in Europe; and to account for the enduring reluctance to do this work in the first place.
Editorial: Race and European TV Histories
S. 1-6
Discoveries
Telling Holocaust Jokes on German Public Television: The German-Israeli Comedian Shahak Shapira and His Satirical Show on Jews, Antisemites and the Rest
S. 7-17
Claude Lanzmann’s The Four Sisters (2017) on Television
S. 18-33
Explorations
An Ode to Black British Girls: Black British Feminism, Black Girl Surrealism, and Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum
S. 34-47
Beasts from the East: Fantasies of Eastern Europeanness in Brexit-era BBC Drama
S. 48-63
Farmer Wants a (Swedish) Wife: White Mobilities in the Reality Romance Show Bonde Söker Fru – Jorden Runt
S. 64-82
Your Race Sounds Familiar?: Blackface, Cross-Racial/Cross-Gender Drag and the Your Face Sounds Familiar Franchise (2013–) on Post-Yugoslav Television
S. 83-103
Roma, Race and Socially Engaged Television on the Fringes of Europe
S. 104-120
The Emergence and Persistence of Racialised Stereotypes on Dutch Television: Tracing the History of Representation of Muslim Immigrants along the Archival Grain
S. 121-142