Download or read book Black Youth in Crisis (Routledge Revivals) written by E. Cashmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982, this book considers the position of young Afro-Caribbean people in Britain, in the 1980s. It looks at how, at the time, this group of young people were disproportionately hit by growing unemployment, seemed to be over-represented in crime statistics and were often disadvantage at school. The authors of the book analyse the struggles of the time and look at the reasons for their existence.