Meaning of black British | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A social and cultural group in Britain comprising people of Black ethnic origin, sometimes including people of other nonwhite ethnicity.
2. A variety of English language spoken by or associated with Black people in Britain.
   uncountable
3. Alternative letter-case form of black British, a social and cultural group consisting of Black Britons.
   alt-of, countable, uncountable

Examples

“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).”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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