black British

alternative Black British

1. A social and cultural group in Britain comprising people of Black ethnic origin, sometimes including people of other nonwhite ethnicity.

   Similarly, the black British are always depicted as outsiders to British culture.

   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

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   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).

   1995, Amina Mama, Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender, and Subjectivity, page 84

   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.

   2007, David Ellis, Writing Home: Black Writing in Britain Since the War, page 145

alternative Black British

1. not comparableOf or related to the social and cultural group of Black or other nonwhite Britons.

   By 1980 pictures about black British people were becoming much more angry, explicit and partisan.

   1999, David Christopher, British Culture: An Introduction, page 90

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   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.

   2004, Mark Stein, Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation, page xii

1. uncountableA variety of English language spoken by or associated with Black people in Britain.

   Bloom’s Black British dialect is a technical and rhythmic innovation. It is a self conscious attempt to subvert the traditional language of poetry and insist on a merciless difference.

   1991, Maggie Humm, Border Traffic: Strategies of Contemporary Women Writers, page 59

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   By the time that awareness had been raised in educational circles, the ability to code-switch between the local British dialect and Black British English was widespread; the distinctively Black British variety which was emerging among second-generation children was essentially a marker of identity.

   2007, Viv Edwards, Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World : Pedigree of Nations, page 126

   Synonyms: Black British English, British Black English

2. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of black British, a social and cultural group consisting of Black Britons.

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of black British.