"Containing an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and significantly extends the insigh…
Structural and cultural forces that contribute to racial inequality -- The forces shaping concentrated poverty -- The economic plight of inner-city black males -- The fragmentation of the poor black family -- Framing the issues : uniting structure and culture.
Prologue -- Tracing a racialized history -- Convergences -- Building and destroying -- Objects of interaction -- Forgetting to remember, remembering to forget -- Unimagining communities -- Epilogue.
