Small Black populations in interwar Britain fostered kinship solidarity transcending class

Evidence

More important to him, the same sort of solidarity was true of Blacks. 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].” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1232

Categorization

• XREF: Directly comparable to the American Black middle-class/working-class alienation that drove the Black radical tradition’s class politics; heightens the anti-communist Marxism of later Black radicalism vs. US NAACP/urban middle-class leadership.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did Black fraternity networks in London differ structurally from those in Harlem’s larger, more stratified population?