ABSTRACT
Cultural mixture is very much on the increase in terms of types and amounts; growing numbers of people and places are mixing culturally, and becoming mixed culturally. The microculture of these black and white girls circled around concerns about ethnic equality and teenage femininity. The black parents had moved to England during the wave of labour migration from the colonies and ex-colonies between the late 1950s and before it was stopped by way of the Commonwealth Immigration Act in 1962. In the early 1980s they worked in unskilled manual to semi-professional jobs. The remarkable mixture of national, ethnic, and racial origins in the group of girls dissolved into a black and a white dichotomy when they met, especially on their own without adults on the street corner. The girls provided each other with joy and comfort through their friendships in the group.
