Your heart sinks toward the end of Education when you learn that a weary West Indian mother's appeal for a fair deal for her son must go through the recently appointed Secretary of State for Education and Science, Margaret Thatcher.
Though that was the early 1970s, before the Iron Lady rose to power as U.K. prime minister, our knowledge of that zealous xenophobe hammers home the wall of prejudice facing countless immigrant families.
Alongside the blight of racial injustice, one of the underlying themes of Steve McQueen's Small Axe is the inextinguishable spirit of a community.
So it's both heartwarming and appropriate that the anthology concludes with women taking matters into their own capable hands.
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