ABSTRACT
The Community Survey with which this book is concerned covers the coloured population of a large Welsh seaport city, mainly made up of the families of African, West Indian, and Arab seamen. In respect to the small size of the community covered (some 7,000 persons at the outside) the survey differs markedly from most of the studies reviewed in the introductory chapter, but the essential qualifications of a community as sociologically defined are satisfactorily fulfilled. The people concerned inhabit an area within the city limits of about one square mile in extent, and by their occupational background as well as by their racial, psychological, and geographical separation from the rest of the city may be regarded as sharing a common body of experience.
