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Steve McQueen on his series Small Axe and racism in the Metropolitan Police

For the past 12 years, the Oscar-winning British director Steve McQueen has been working towards addressing what he calls the “weird absence” of black people from British television drama and stories of the black British experience.

As a child of the Windrush generation, McQueen has made an anthology of films for the ѿý and Amazon under the banner of ‘Small Axe’ — about the West Indian community in London from the 1960s-1980s. The series explores the extraordinary and every day: injustices, riots, police brutality and racism but also the cultural and family traditions and the food and music of the time.

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8 minutes