Bio
Li Ming is an author at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology whose research focuses on the intersection of race, class, and media representation.
Research
Silenced by Omission: Race, Class, and the Politics of Visibility in I, Daniel Blake and Healing a Divided Britain
Article
February 19, 2026
This paper examines how race and class are represented and obscured in Ken Loach’s I,Daniel Blake and the government report Healing a Divided Britain. While the film highlights working-class struggles under austerity, it largely omits racial minorities, reinforcing whiteness as the default experience of suffering. In contrast, the report reveals deep-rooted racial inequalities across British […]
