Scarcity of Blacks in Britain made kinship solidarity override class divisions.

Evidence

Because Blacks were so few in Britain, he believed, kinship overrode class. Unlike America where a pretentious urban Black middle class had become alienated from the majority of working-class Blacks, those in pre–World War II Britain formed a responsive fraternity. When in England some of them became disoriented and went “shenzi,” “instead of being disgraced we would provide money to pay for their passage [home].” Harold Moody’s League of Coloured People and various members of the radical Left were also a part of this services network. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1232

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with the US Black class alienation described elsewhere; relevant to Black radical tradition fraternity networks.