Windrush, Hostile Environment, and BLM: Media Mobilization and Demobilization of Co-ethnic Voting in British General Elections

• In Event: Media Continues to Shape Perceptions and Impacts of Race and Ethnicity

Brief Overview

Using a new ethnic and major British newspaper database, I show media reports of ethnic events mobilize and demobilize British Black and Asian identity producing strong support for co-ethnic candidates in some elections and weak support in others.

Author

• Kimberly L Shella, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale