Written By: Annameka Porter-Sinclair—As a Jamaican born black woman, brought up in the UK, identity has always been an issue of interest. Growing up in a muli-cultural environment, that is now it’s own entity as a conglomeration of cultures, where communities fight for their individually and the government press multi-culturalism, in order to understand and accommodate the ethnic minorities need to hold on, to their pre-defined roots of origin, how does a the Black British woman find her sense of self, in a metropolis that has evolved as one culture, London.In a country that fundamentally attained it’s supremacy through exploration and discovery of new land and civilisations, where it’s economic development and technological geometry is structured and build by many cultures, how does one find ones self without looking back, at the trail of hurt and injustice that brought my ancestry to the Caribbean or looking out on today’s news at the black on black violence in the UK, where second generation Caribbean youth and African youth conflict.
With hurt behind you and conflict in the present, highlighted by the media, I long for a distraction as do many, some take up artistic expression, whether music, drama, dance or throw themselves into their profession, marriage, religion, whatever, I can only speak of what I have observed, I see a lot of black British seeking for a sense of self, clinging to their culture, in a media drenched environment that caters for the white British demographic.
So how do the twenty something black British women define herself outside from her career or loved ones? Read the rest of this article by clicking on the "Read More" link ...Read more »
