Ali Meghji is a Lecturer in Social Inequalities in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge

'A tour de force with original arguments, empirical richness and theoretical ambition, all presented in a beautifully crafted written narrative.' Les Back is a Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London 'Black middle-class Britannia offers a fascinating portrait of race and class in contemporary London. Using the cultural world as a site to examine inequality, Ali Meghji shows how racial and class boundaries are both understood and navigated in varying ways depending on the identities of middle-class blacks. While some see the existence of middle class blacks as evidence that Britain is now color-blind, Black middle-class Britannia provides a timely and in depth counterpoint to this view.'Patricia A. Banks, Associate Professor of Sociology, Mount Holyoke College

• Acknowledgments1 Introduction: Taking off the colourblind goggles: Crafting a study on Britain’s Black middle class2 Towards a triangle of Black middle class identity3 White spaces: consuming traditional middle class Culture4 Constructing and using Black cultural capital5 Revisiting race and nation: double consciousness, Black Britishness, and cultural consumption6 Race, class, and culture in the British racialised social systemAppendix: Building a reflexive case study of the Black middle classReferences

Ali Meghji is a Lecturer in Social Inequalities in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge

'A tour de force with original arguments, empirical richness and theoretical ambition, all presented in a beautifully crafted written narrative.' Les Back is a Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London 'Black middle-class Britannia offers a fascinating portrait of race and class in contemporary London. Using the cultural world as a site to examine inequality, Ali Meghji shows how racial and class boundaries are both understood and navigated in varying ways depending on the identities of middle-class blacks. While some see the existence of middle class blacks as evidence that Britain is now color-blind, Black middle-class Britannia provides a timely and in depth counterpoint to this view.'Patricia A. Banks, Associate Professor of Sociology, Mount Holyoke College

• Acknowledgments1 Introduction: Taking off the colourblind goggles: Crafting a study on Britain’s Black middle class2 Towards a triangle of Black middle class identity3 White spaces: consuming traditional middle class Culture4 Constructing and using Black cultural capital5 Revisiting race and nation: double consciousness, Black Britishness, and cultural consumption6 Race, class, and culture in the British racialised social systemAppendix: Building a reflexive case study of the Black middle classReferences

Ali Meghji is a Lecturer in Social Inequalities in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge

'A tour de force with original arguments, empirical richness and theoretical ambition, all presented in a beautifully crafted written narrative.' Les Back is a Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London 'Black middle-class Britannia offers a fascinating portrait of race and class in contemporary London. Using the cultural world as a site to examine inequality, Ali Meghji shows how racial and class boundaries are both understood and navigated in varying ways depending on the identities of middle-class blacks. While some see the existence of middle class blacks as evidence that Britain is now color-blind, Black middle-class Britannia provides a timely and in depth counterpoint to this view.'Patricia A. Banks, Associate Professor of Sociology, Mount Holyoke College

• Acknowledgments1 Introduction: Taking off the colourblind goggles: Crafting a study on Britain’s Black middle class2 Towards a triangle of Black middle class identity3 White spaces: consuming traditional middle class Culture4 Constructing and using Black cultural capital5 Revisiting race and nation: double consciousness, Black Britishness, and cultural consumption6 Race, class, and culture in the British racialised social systemAppendix: Building a reflexive case study of the Black middle classReferences