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Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction television series in the world and is regularly watched by millions of people across the globe. While its scores of fans adore the show with cult-like devotion, the fan-contributors to this book argue that there is an uncharted dimension to Doctor Who. Bringing together diverse perspectives on race and its representation in Doctor Who, this anthology offers new understandings of the cultural significance of race in the programme – how the show’s representations of racial diversity, colonialism, nationalism and racism affect our daily lives and change the way we relate to each other.
'This is an engaging collection dealing with a frequently ignored aspect of this great series. For both fans and academics alike, it is well worth picking up.'
Introduction
PART I: The Doctor, his companions and race
Chapter 1: The white Doctor – Fire Fly
Chapter 2: Too brown for a fair praise: The depiction of racial prejudice as cultural heritage in Doctor Who – Iona Yeager
Chapter 3: Conscious colour-blindness, unconscious racism in Doctor Who companions – Linnea Dodson
Chapter 4: Doctor Who, cricket and race: The Peter Davison years – Amit Gupta
Chapter 5: Humanity as a white metaphor – Quiana Howard and Robert Smith?
Chapter 6: “You can’t just change what I look like without consulting me!”: The shifting racial identity of the Doctor – Mike Hernandez
PART II: Diversity and representation in casting and characterization
Chapter 7: No room for old-fashioned cats: Davies era Who and interracial romance – Emily Asher-Perrin
Chapter 8: When white boys write black: Race and class in the Davies and Moff at eras – Rosanne Welch
Chapter 9: Baby steps: A modest solution to Asian under-representation in Doctor Who – Stephanie Guerdan
Chapter 10: That was then, this is now: How my perceptions have changed – George Ivanoff
Chapter 11: “One of us is yellow”: Doctor Fu Manchu and The Talons of Weng-Chiang – Kate Orman
PART III: Colonialism, imperialism, slavery and the diaspora
Chapter 12: Inventing America: The Aztecs in context – Leslie McMurtry
Chapter 13: The Ood as a slave race: Colonial continuity in the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire – Erica Foss
Chapter 14: Doctor Who and the critique of western imperialism – John Vohlidka
Chapter 15: Through coloured eyes: An alternative viewing of postcolonial transition – Vanessa de Kauwe
PART IV: Xenophobia, nationalism and national identities
Chapter 16: The allegory of allegory: Race, racism and the summer of 2011 – Alec Charles
Chapter 17: Doctor Who and the racial state: Fighting National Socialism across time and space – Richard Scully
Chapter 18: Religion, racism and the Church of England in Doctor Who – Marcus K. Harmes
Chapter 19: The Doctor is in (the Antipodes): Doctor Who short fiction and Australian national identity – Catriona Mills
PART V: Race and science
Chapter 20: “They hate each other’s chromosomes”: Eugenics and the shifting racial identity of the Daleks – Kristine Larsen
Chapter 21: Mapping the boundaries of race in The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood – Rachel Morgain
Chapter 22: Savages, science, stagism, and the naturalized ascendancy of the Not-We in Doctor Who – Lindy A. Orthia
Conclusion