Black Studies is a hugely important, and yet undervalued, academic field of enquiry that is marked by its disciplinary absence and omission from academic curricula in Britain. Blackness in Britain attends to and grapples with the absence of Black Studies in Britain and the parallel crisis of Black marginality in British society. Split into five parts, it examines: Black studies and the challenge of the Black British intellectual; revolution, resistance and state violence; Blackness and belonging; exclusion and inequality in education; and experiences of Black women and the gendering of Blackness in Britain.

Introduction Part I: Black Studies and the Challenge of the Black British Intellectual 1. The Absence of Black Studies in Britain 2. The Invisible Outsider: Reflections from Beyond the Ivory Tower Part II: Revolution, Resistance and State Violence 3. The Case of the Two Williams: Black Revolutionists in Nineteenth Century Britain 4. Black Is a Country: Black People in the West as a Colonised Minority 5. Old and New Violence: From Slavery to Serco Part III: Blackness and Belonging 6. Black British Writing and an English Literary Belonging 7. Grime Central! Subterranean Ground-In Grit Engulfing Manicured Mainstream Spaces 8. Is David Starkey Right or Has the Jamaican Bible Movement Lost Its Mind?: Language and Atonement Part IV: Exclusion and Inequality in Education 9. The Ties That Bind: Questions of Empire and Belonging in Black British Educational Activism 10. The British School-To-Prison Pipeline 11. The Black Mixed-Race British Males and the Role of School Teachers: New Theory and Evidence Part V: Black Women and the Gendering of Blackness in Britain 12. Managing Diversity: Professional And Managerial Black African Women's Work Lives in the UK Private Sector 13. Young Black British Women: Defining a Sense of Self In Relation to Hip Hop and Dancehall Musical Genres 14. Learning from the Liminal: Conducting Health Research in African Caribbean Communities Conclusion 15. Changing the Nature, Not Just the Face of the Academy