black British
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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
black British (plural black British)
- A social and cultural group in Britain comprising people of Black ethnic origin, sometimes including people of other nonwhite ethnicity.
- 1995, Amina Mama, Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender, and Subjectivity, page 84:
- Theresa identifies herself as Caribbean, taking distance from those she defines as ‘black British’. The way she defines ‘those’ women is challenged by Beatrice (who does at this moment identify as black British) and Priscilla (who defends and explains the black British without explicitly identifying as such).
- 1996, Mantia Diawara, “Black British cinema: spectatorship and identity formation in Territories”, in Houston A. Baker, Manthia Diawara, Ruth H. Lindeborg, editors, Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader, page 299:
- Similarly, the black British are always depicted as outsiders to British culture.
- 2007, David Ellis, Writing Home: Black Writing in Britain Since the War, page 145:
- As the Islamic world replaces Communism as the threat to Western civilisation […] the Caribbean black British seem less alien, untainted by the stigma of religious separatism.
Usage notes[edit]
The noun takes plural verb agreement.
Adjective[edit]
black British (not comparable)
- Of or related to the social and cultural group of Black or other nonwhite Britons.
- 1999, David Christopher, British Culture: An Introduction, page 90:
- By 1980 pictures about black British people were becoming much more angry, explicit and partisan.
- 2004, Mark Stein, Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation, page xii:
- Black British literature (which is as multifarious as the cast of White Teeth) not only deals with the situation of those who came from former colonies and their descendants, but also with the society which they discovered and continue to shape—and with those societies left behind.