Abstract
In June and July 2006 a three-part reality television programme entitled Young Black Farmers was aired on the British television channel, Channel 4. The programme traced the experiences of nine young Black and Asian people between the ages of 17 and 21 who went to live and work for the summer on a farm in rural England. This project was conceived and implemented by a man who claims to be the UK’s ‘only Black farmer’. Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones owns a remote, 30-acre farm on which he rears cattle for his sausage business. The farm is situated in Devon, a predominantly rural county in the south-west of England. The four young men and five young women left the city to live in a converted barn on Wilfred’s farm. The series followed the students as they learnt about farming, including 4 am starts, buying and selling cattle, sausage-making, tractor driving and pig insemination.
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Tyler, K. (2008). Debating the Rural and the Urban: Majority White Racialized Discourses on the Countryside and the City. In: Petersson, B., Tyler, K. (eds) Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582644_5
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