Colonial immigrants in a British city : a class analysis

Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the class structure of a British city.

Based on a four-year research project in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, the book is a study of race and community relations – political, social, economic and personal – in a major centre of immigrant settlement.

It considers the relationship between housing class and class formations and consciousness in other sectors of allocation, such as employment and education.

It includes a consideration of the changing political climate on race relations between 1950 and 1976.