British African-Caribbean people
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"The film Babylon, released in 1980, so accurately captured the raw smoldering tensions between white and British Afro-Caribbeans centered around Brixton in the 1970s and 1980s, that it would be given an X rating in the UK and blacklisted in the United States, due to its depiction of institutional racism. Believed to be too incendiary for general distribution, it would be buried and forgotten following its premiere at Cannes, and would take another 40 years before it would be re-released."--Sholem Stein "The end of World War II had seen a marked increase in African-Caribbean migrants to Britain. By the 1950s, white working-class "Teddy Boys" were beginning to display hostility towards black families in the area, a situation exploited and inflamed by groups such as Oswald Mosley's Union Movement and other far-right groups such as the White Defence League, who urged disaffected white residents to "Keep Britain White"."--Sholem Stein |
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British African-Caribbean (or British Afro-Caribbean) people are residents of the United Kingdom whose ancestors were primarily indigenous to Africa. As immigration to the United Kingdom from Africa increased in the 1990s, the term has sometimes been used to include UK residents solely of African origin or as a term to define all Black British residents, though the phrase African and Caribbean has more often been used to cover such a broader grouping. The most common and traditional use of the term African-Caribbean community is in reference to groups of residents continuing aspects of Caribbean culture, customs and traditions in the UK.
See also
- Afro-Caribbean
- British Indo-Caribbean people
- Black British
- Antiguan British
- Jamaican British
- Guyanese British
- Barbadian British
- Belizean British
- Saint Lucian British
- Saint Kitts and Nevisian British
- Grenadian British
- Montserratian British
- Trinidadian and Tobagonian British
- Vincentian British
- Dominican British
- African American British
- Sus law
- African and Caribbean War Memorial
- Afro-Caribbean newspapers:
