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The Oxford Companion to Black British History. Ed. by David Dabydeen, John Gilmore, and Cecily Jones. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2007. 592p. $60 (ISBN 978-0-19-280439-6).
This guide was developed in response to a 2005 British government report by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority citing the limited educational resources available covering the black British community. In going beyond the topics of slavery and post-war immigration, the editors present the nearly two millennia history of blacks in the British Isles, from the Roman era to the present day. Many works on immigration and diasporas have been published in the past decade, including the newly...