Exercise: Analyse an essay on photography

The exercise is to analyse the essay The Vertigo of Displacement by David A.Bailey and Stuart Hall.
We all know by now that I seriously have trouble reading these texts so it took a few reads to be able to acknowledge anything other than fancy words and complicated sentences. But I tried my best and made notes to attempt to get some kind of answer down.

The central argument of this essay is the development of black photography and how there is now no need for representation of an identity for black photographers.

The discussion is set within a larger socio/political framework but there doesn't seem to be a lot of information given to justify this. The text explains a lot about the struggles of the black photographers and their acceptance and mentions many movements and campaigns, however I didn't see much evidence of it being set within a larger socio/political framework as it constantly refers to black photographers in Britain.

The argument refers back to the 1980's a lot throughout and consistently refers to Britain. We see a discussion about the GLC (Greater London Council) as well as discussing English Society and Englishness and being black and British. I think that if the argument was meant to be set within a larger socio/political framework then a wider view all round could've been addressed, for the socio/political side but also incorporating related movements in other countries.

Do I think that photographers of black subjects should be black themselves? No. Not at all. I don't think the colour or gender or race of a photographer will have any impact on the subject they are photographing at all. Any photographer, whether white or black, would have their own outlook on the subject and each different photographer would have a different perspective. But with racism still such a huge issue in today's society, I don't think that this segregation would benefit at all.