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Raggamuffin Cultural Studies: X-Press Novels' Yardies and Cop Killers Put Britain on Trial

Author(s) -

Loretta Collins

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

small axe a caribbean journal of criticism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19

H-Index - 2

eISSN - 0799-0537

pISSN - 1534-6714

DOI - 10.1353/smx.2001.0002

Subject(s) - publishing , criminology , sociology , gender studies , media studies , project commissioning , history , political science , law

O n Devils Advocate, Channel Four televisions talk show, airing in Britain on 8 October 1994, the host, Darcus Howe, attacked his two guests Dotun Adebayo and Steve Pope, directors of the new black British publishing firm, X-Press. He charged them with publishing poorly written popular Yardie and Cop Killer novels that damage the black community by perpetuating stereotypes of youth criminality. Howe opened the show with a monologue mourning the violence in his own community, Brixton:

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