Sub-titled ‘a study of the settlement of coloured minorities in Britain’, this small hardback was written primarily as a source book for students and all who were interested in the field of race relations in Britain. While trying to purge the text of technical language it retains a basically sociological perspective and served its purpose well at a time when there was little other research and information available.
Background History
Clifford Hill had reluctantly taken an academic post to support his young family while doing mission work in the East End of inner-city London. This was after a number of years of successful pastoral work in various areas of London when he had written a number of other books on his experiences of the joys and problems of race relations in the earliest days of the Windrush generation.