Roots and culture: cultural politics in the making of Black Britain

How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge?

In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as 'Black Britain'.

Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature, South Sudan in War and Peace music and the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity.

This book chronicles the extraordinary blend of social, political and cultural influences from the mid-1950s to late 1970s that gave rise to new heights of Black-British artistic expression in the 1980s.