Black migrants were working class but lacked the same class consciousness

Evidence

The black people in Britain who came in the early 1950s, were they members of the working class? Yeah, lots of them were. Did they have the same kind of class consciousness? Clearly not. … I’m not defending this, you know. I’m just telling you, this is the consciousness you’re inside. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1105

Categorization

• XREF: Distinguishes objective class position from subjective class consciousness — a distinction that carries into later work on how race cuts across class categories.
• DEFINE: Implied definition: class membership is not the same as class consciousness, which must be produced and experienced.