Blackness in Britain

Kehinde Andrews is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University. Lisa Palmer is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University.

Introduction Part I: Black Studies and the Challenge of the Black British Intellectual 1. The Absence of Black Studies in Britain 2. The Invisible Outsider: Reflections from Beyond the Ivory Tower Part II: Revolution, Resistance and State Violence 3. The Case of the Two Williams: Black Revolutionists in Nineteenth Century Britain 4. Black Is a Country: Black People in the West as a Colonised Minority 5. Old and New Violence: From Slavery to Serco Part III: Blackness and Belonging 6. Black British Writing and an English Literary Belonging 7. Grime Central! Subterranean Ground-In Grit Engulfing Manicured Mainstream Spaces 8. Is David Starkey Right or Has the Jamaican Bible Movement Lost Its Mind?: Language and Atonement Part IV: Exclusion and Inequality in Education 9. The Ties That Bind: Questions of Empire and Belonging in Black British Educational Activism 10. The British School-To-Prison Pipeline 11. The Black Mixed-Race British Males and the Role of School Teachers: New Theory and Evidence Part V: Black Women and the Gendering of Blackness in Britain 12. Managing Diversity: Professional And Managerial Black African Women’s Work Lives in the UK Private Sector 13. Young Black British Women: Defining a Sense of Self In Relation to Hip Hop and Dancehall Musical Genres 14. Learning from the Liminal: Conducting Health Research in African Caribbean Communities Conclusion 15. Changing the Nature, Not Just the Face of the Academy