ABSTRACT
This book features representative essays and new scholarship in Black British cultural studies as an introduction to this emergent and increasingly popular field of study. The impetus to this intellectual project, contemporary in its immediate concerns, yet passionately historical with its engagement of the past, lies primarily in an eclectic variety of factors associated with recent ontological and paradigmatic shifts in many academic disciplines. These factors partly reflect the impact of cultural studies, which on some traditional fields like sociology, literature and political science has been significant.
