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Explores the complex ways in which black female identites have evolved in the UK, drawing on data from the life histories of 4 women. These women's narratives diverge in many important ways; they appear to be in a continual process of redefinition based on the changing nature of their cultural hybridity. However, the women's experiences of Otherness are similar, indicating that beneath their diversity exists a common thread connected to their diasporic experiences & subordinate status. The women were typicaly interested both in describing the complexity of their own experience & in assuming the identity of blackness as a position from which to articulate their social experiences. It is suggested that theorists of black female identity would do well to focus on individual & group action in particular arenas of struggle so as to keep sight of both the diversity & the similarities in the black diasporic experience. 23 References. D. Ryfe