The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain – Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe

Available with shipping in the US and UK only. The Heart of the RaceBlack Women’s Lives in Britainby Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne ScafeForeword by Lola Okolosie A powerful document of theday-to-day realities of Black women in Britain The Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women’s place in that history, documenting their day-to-day struggles, their experiences of education, work and health care, and the personal and political struggles they have waged to preserve a sense of identity and community. First published in 1985 and winner of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize that year, The Heart of the Race is a testimony to the collective experience of black women in Britain, and their relationship to the British state throughout its long history of slavery, empire and colonialism. This new edition includes a foreword by Lola Okolosie and an inter