ABSTRACT

The study of kinship has been of particular interest in the history of anthropology. While African-Caribbeans have been making kinship in Britain for the last half-century, they have not been investigated as part of the fabric of British kinship. Moreover, they have, since their arrival in the 1950s, also been making kinship with their white British counterparts, though these mixed kinship relationships have also gone uninvestigated. What have we learned from my exploration of this ongoing and un-researched aspect of contemporary British kinship from the 34 mixed-heritage African-Caribbean and white families in London?