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Cultures in Babylon

Feminism from Black Britain to African America

Hazel V Carby Saidiya Hartman

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English
Verso Books
04 June 2024
Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby's most important and influential essays,

Cultures in Bablyon analysed diverse aspects of US and British culture. Carby's writing is invariably sharp and provocative, her political insights shrewd and often against the grain. A powerful intervention, Culture in Babylon quickly became a standard reference point in debates over race, ethnicity and gender.

With a new introduction by Saidiya Hartman and a new afterword by the author.
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Imprint:   Verso Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   272g
ISBN:   9781804295717
ISBN 10:   180429571X
Series:   Feminist Classics
Pages:   288
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction Women, Migration and the Formation of a Blues Culture 1. The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues 2. Policing the Black Woman's Body in an Urban Context 3. Black Women's Blues, Motown and Rock and Roll 4. They Put a Spell on You Black Feminist Interventions 5. White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood 6. Race and the Academy: Feminism and the Politics of Difference 7. National Nightmares: The Liberal Bourgeoisie and Racial Anxiety 8. America Inc. - The Crisis at Yale: A Tale of Two Women Fictions of the Folk 9. Reinventing History/Imagining the Future 10. Proletarian or Revolutionary Literature? C.L.R. James and the Politics of the Trinidadian Renaissance 11. Ideologies of Black Folk: The Historical Novel of Slavery  12. On Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee  13. The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston Dispatches from the Multicultural Wars 14. Schooling in Babylon 15. Multiculture  16. The Racism behind the Rioting 17. The Blackness of Theory 18. The Canon: Civil War and Reconstruction 19. The Multicultural Wars, Part One  20. The Multicultural Wars, Part Two  21. Imagining Black Men: The Politics of Cultural Identity Acknowledgments Index

Hazel V. Carby is the multi-award-winning author of Imperial Intimacies and Reconstructing Womanhood, and co-author of The Empire Strikes Back. For three decades she taught at Yale University as the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and Professor of American Studies.

Reviews for Cultures in Babylon: Feminism from Black Britain to African America

At every turn, Carby refuses to tell a tidy or convenient story and instead produces an account of empire that is as expansive as it is heartbreaking. * Saidiya Hartman * Carby disrupts fixed notions of racial identity that contort our understanding of Britain's colonial and postcolonial history. * Paul Gilroy, author of Darker Than Blue and The Black Atlantic * Hazel Carby is a foundational scholar of race, class, and empire as critical lenses for understanding culture. * Elizabeth Alexander, author of The Light of the World and American Sublime *


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