Black Men in Britain

Kenny Monrose is an Affiliated Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, and a College Research Associate at Wolfson College, Cambridge.

• Acknowledgements1 Introduction: personal curiosity and research trajectory2 Historical context3 Research approach and methods4 Black British self-concept5 Being a black man6 The crisis of the black family in Britain7 Uneducated, educated or mis-educated?8 Black British religious instruction9 Criminal participation, desistance and preclusion10 ConclusionIndex

"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