ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how popular political discourse and explains that subsequent legislation encouraged the view that Britain's ethnic minorities were the cause of urban trouble. It introduces that the idea of racist discourse to show how the ethnic other is contained within a particular set of ideological representations. The chapter shows how these ideas relate more specifically to examples taken from the news media's representation of Stephen Lawrence and his dialectical opponents - the five white men accused of his murder. It also shows an examination of the way that Stephen Lawrence was constructed by the white majority press, he was recoded to fit into an existing discursive framework, based on the colonizer/colonized system of representation. Subsequent representational coding - of his parents, the police, the accused killers, and explores the legal system embodied by Sir William Macpherson - also functioned to fund a return to dominant hegemonic standards.
