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Cultures in Babylon

Feminism from Black Britain to African America

Black Britain and African America

Feminism from Black Britain to African America

By Hazel V. Carby

By Hazel V. Carby

By Hazel V. Carby

By Hazel V. Carby

By Hazel V. Carby

By Hazel V. Carby

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Mar 12, 2024 | ISBN 9781804295717

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Aug 17, 1999 | ISBN 9781859842812

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Mar 12, 2024 | ISBN 9781804295731

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    About Cultures in Babylon

    “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

    Twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of a transatlantic Black feminist classic

    Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby’s most important and influential essays, Cultures in Babylon addresses the political dilemmas of representing Black women as sexual subjects, considers how far female sexuality is exploited by consumerism, and traces the contradictions Black women in the culture industry navigate. Carby’s writing is invariably sharp and provocative, her political insights shrewd and often against the grain. A powerful intervention, Cultures in Babylon quickly became a standard reference point in debates over race, ethnicity, and gender.

    About Cultures in Babylon

    For a decade and a half, since she first appeared in the Birmingham Centre’s collective volume The Empire Strikes Back, Hazel Carby has been on the frontline of the debate over multicultural education in Britain and the US. This book brings together her most important and influential essays, ranging over such topics as the necessity for racially diverse school curricula, the construction of literary canons, Zora Neale Hurston’s portraits of “the Folk,” C.L.R. James and Trinidadian nationalism and black women blues artists, and the necessity for racially diverse school curricula.

    Carby’s analyses of diverse aspects of contemporary culture are invariably sharp and provocative, her political insights shrewd and often against the grain. A powerful intervention, Culture in Babylon will become a standard reference point in future debates over race, ethnicity and gender.

    About Cultures in Babylon

    For a decade and a half, since she first appeared in the Birmingham Centre’s collective volume The Empire Strikes Back, Hazel Carby has been on the frontline of the debate over multicultural education in Britain and the US. This book brings together her most important and influential essays, ranging over such topics as the necessity for racially diverse school curricula, the construction of literary canons, Zora Neale Hurston’s portraits of “the Folk,” C.L.R. James and Trinidadian nationalism and black women blues artists, and the necessity for racially diverse school curricula.

    Carby’s analyses of diverse aspects of contemporary culture are invariably sharp and provocative, her political insights shrewd and often against the grain. A powerful intervention, Culture in Babylon will become a standard reference point in future debates over race, ethnicity and gender.

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    Product Details

    Category: Nonfiction

    Paperback | $26.95
    Published by Verso
    Mar 12, 2024 | 288 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781804295717

    Category: Nonfiction

    Paperback | $34.95
    Published by Verso
    Aug 17, 1999 | 288 Pages | 6 x 9-1/5 | ISBN 9781859842812

    Category: Nonfiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Verso
    Mar 12, 2024 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781804295731

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    Praise

    “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

    Table Of Contents

    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

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