Description:
This book is the first attempt to understand one of Britain's hidden populations - The post Windrush generation, who matured within a post-industrial British society that rendered them both invisible and irrelevant. A reflective testament of what life was really like for black men in Britain.
Review Quotes:
"Monrose's Black Men in Britain provides an in-depth qualitative study exploring the lives of Black men of the post-Windrush generation. Rich with participants' narratives, and written in a lucid and engaging style, Monrose uses "formal interviews" with ten participants, and unstructured exchanges with thirty participants, to provide a counter-story to traditional academic and popular framings of Black Britishness. Against the academic framing of Black Brits, Monrose focuses on an understudied population: middle-aged Black men who grew up in the post-Windrush era. This empirical focus shifts attention away from the more regularly studied Black youths, and Black members of the Windrush generation. "
Prof. Ali Meghji, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
"As contemporary scandals, relating both to the treatment of Windrush-era migrants and to the low value accorded to Black lives, batter against the platitudes that British society (and others like it) tells itself, this book does much more than simply contextualise Black experience and racism within a specific space-time."
Jonathan Ilan, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of Undergraduate Programmes, Department of Sociology, City University of London