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The black middle class. That ill-understood, much-pilloried group. A question often asked is whether they are a racial fraction of a class group or a class fraction of a racial group – are we merely talking about middle-class people who are black or black people who are middle class? In any case, little is known about those who fit both categories in Britain. Alas, we have been accustomed to talking about black people and other ethnic minorities as though they belonged to classless “communities”, unlike white Britons, who are riven with class divisions. Part of the reason, as Symeon Brown notes in The Good, the Black and the Boujee, is that in Britain “to be black is to be assumed to be working class”, thus “race has so often made class differences within black Britain invisible”. Brown sought to correct this view but encountered a dearth of reliable data and research in laying out the complex social and class differentiation among black Britons. So, he had to conduct his own surveys; these, with interviews mixed with reportage and anecdotal storytelling, form the backbone of this informative study. This article appears in the 02 Sep 2026 issue of the New Statesman, Meet Generation Screwed