African and Caribbean People in BritainAfrican and Caribbean People in Britain offers a Black people's history of Britain that transforms our understanding of this country's past. Despite the best efforts of researchers and campaigners, there remains today a steadfast tendency to reduce the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain to a simple story. It is one that begins in 1948 with the arrival of a single ship, the Empire Windrush, and continues mostly apart from a distinct