Donning my helmet, I joined the middle class commuters who regularly left the office in cycling gear. A black professional class has significantly expanded, but the meaning of blackness in Britain is unchanged in the public imagination. Photograph: Mike Coppola/MG25/Getty Images for the Met Museum/VogueIn Britain, to be black is to be assumed to be working class. This means that class differences between the black working class and the emergent black bourgeoisie are made invisible. Photograph: Kirstin Sinclair/Getty ImagesIn black Britain a pervasive, underlying status anxiety has grown within the emergent middle class.