Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain

In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban areas. In Handsworth, an inner—city neighborhood of Birmingham, black residents looked across the Atlantic toward African and Afro—Caribbean social and political cultures and drew upon them while navigating the inequalities of their locale. For those of the Windrush generation and their British—born children, this diasporic inheritance became a c...