Drawing on perspectives from attachment theory, trauma oriented approaches to psychotherapy, social psychology, and literature, as well as clinical and personal experience, the author puts forward a new way of understanding the impact of visible and invisible racism on the descendants of African slaves in the African-Caribbean community in England. The author presents a framework that situates the cultural group as a component of the self. She discusses the impact on the self of this community's loss of a secure base of group and nation, and the ways in which this loss affects the lives of first and second generation African-Caribbeans in the UK. The author discusses how an attachment oriented relational approach can help to facilitate reconnection with a valued past as a means of facilitating a secure identity encompassing a valued sense of both the individual self and the cultural group.