The Heart of the Race

The Heart of the Race
Author	Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Sociology
Publisher	Virago Press
Publication date	1985
Pages	250 (first edition)
ISBN	9780860683612
OCLC	1050057930

The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain was a 1985 book by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and . A socio-historical study, it looked at the realities of life for Black women in the United Kingdom after the Second World War.^[1]

The book discusses the history of Afro-Caribbean immigration to the UK, specifically focusing on the experiences of Black British women. Bryan, Dadzie and Scafe focused on the role played by Black British women in the postwar economy, including the development of the National Health Service (NHS), in addition to discussing the anti-racist work Black British women were involved in.^[1]

The book won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize in 1985.^[2]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Cecily Jones (2007). "Heart of the Race". In David Dabydeen; John Gilmore; Cecily Jones (eds.). The Oxford Companion to Black British History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-923894-1.
^ "Stella Dadzie", The British Library.

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[OCBBH-1] Cecily Jones (2007). "Heart of the Race". In David Dabydeen; John Gilmore; Cecily Jones (eds.). The Oxford Companion to Black British History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-923894-1.

[2] "Stella Dadzie", The British Library.

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