The artworks associated with British Black Art, created by major artists including Rasheed Araeen, Sonia Boyce, Chila Kumari Burman, Eddie Chambers, Lubaina Himid and Keith Piper, are linked to migratory European cultural history, and concern matters of race, class, gender and sexuality.

These works were long marginalized or excluded from Canonical Art History because of the biographical or sociological approaches used to study the artists.

This study offers new narratives of emblematic works of British Black Art, analysing their critical force within Western Art History, and how it stems from the relations they weave between the tools of cultural studies, British Black feminism, and cultural politics and the specific tools of artistic creation.