This article addresses how Northamptonshire Afro-Caribbeans c. 1960-1990 were simultaneously part of the transformation from people of the Caribbean with individual island identities/nationalities into Afro-Caribbean British people whilst helping to shape this ethnoracial development. Oral history has been integral in conducting this research, with past Northamptonshire Black History Association (NBHA) interviews from 2002-2005 being a great asset to the interviews conducted by the author in 2009-2010. Economic concepts involving monetary currencies and flight to quality will be used to show how these monetary philosophies can help historians understand how culture and its manifestations are forms, and have systems, of exchange. These monetary concepts will also be used to create an understanding of cultural currency, as well as the frameworks for analysing how acquiring strong cultural currencies often leads to exchanging them for other strong cultural currencies. Northamptonshire Afro-Caribbean organisations and individuals' usage of their historical and developed cultural currencies in obtaining greater ethno-racial pride will be illuminated in this article. Theoretical frameworks of currency and flight to quality How can understanding theoretical frameworks of monetary currency and financial flight to quality rationale augment understanding the role cultural currency plays in the creation and development of culture? 1 Cultural currency revolves around performances constrained by cultural meaning and identity. 2 Another interpretation dovetails monetary currency with 1 Acknowledgements are given to Professor Jon Stobart and Dr. Julia Bush for their support in helping me produce this work, as well as Marika Sherwood and Matthew Callender for their suggestions.
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