Cultures in Babylon: Feminism from Black Britain to African America by Hazel V.

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Cultures in Babylon by Hazel V. Carby Twenty-fifth anniversary edition of transatlantic Black feminist classic FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carbys most important and influential essays, Cultures in Bablyon analysed diverse aspects of US and British culture. Carbys 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. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Introduction Women, Migration and the Formation of a Blues Culture 1. The Sexual Politics of Womens Blues 2. Policing the Black Womans Body in an Urban Context 3. Black Womens 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 Hurstons 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 Review 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 HartmanCarby disrupts fixed notions of racial identity that contort our understanding of Britains colonial and postcolonial history. -- Paul Gilroy, author of Darker Than Blue and The Black AtlanticHazel 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 Promotional Twenty-fifth anniversary edition of transatlantic Black feminist classic. Details ISBN180429571X Author Hazel V. Carby Publisher Verso Books Edition Description New edition Series Feminist Classics Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781804295717 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-03-05 Imprint Verso Books Subtitle Feminism from Black Britain to African America Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Replaces 9781859842812 UK Release Date 2024-03-05 Audience General AU Release Date 2024-06-03 Pages 288 ISBN-10 180429571X We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:161557548;

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