Black British

A demographic and cultural category referring to people of African and Caribbean descent living in Britain, whose identity and cultural expressions reflect a synthesis of diasporic and local traditions. The term has functioned as a unifying political/cultural label for these communities, though it has increasingly collapsed under internal demographic, religious, and class differentiation.

Claims that use this term

• Black British musical forms are syntheses of multiple diasporic and local traditions
• The unified ‘Black British’ category collapsed under internal demographic and religious differentiation.
• Black British celebrants can appropriate royal pageantry into a sardonic spectacle of multicultural defiance.
• Black British middle-class claims tied assimilation to property as much as to cultural recognition