{"product_id":"cultures-in-babylon-isbn-9781804295717","title":"Cultures in Babylon","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Hazel Carby is a foundational scholar of race, class, and empire as critical lenses for understanding culture.\" \u003cbr\u003e–Elizabeth Alexander, author of\u003ci\u003e The Light of the World \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-fifth-anniversary edition of a transatlantic Black feminist classic \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby’s most important and influential essays, \u003ci\u003eCultures in Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eCultures in Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e quickly became a standard reference point in debates over race, ethnicity, and gender.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWomen, Migration and the Formation of a Blues Culture \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues\u003cbr\u003e 2. Policing the Black Woman's Body in an Urban Context\u003cbr\u003e 3. Black Women's Blues, Motown and Rock and Roll\u003cbr\u003e 4. They Put a Spell on You\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBlack Feminist Interventions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood\u003cbr\u003e 6. Race and the Academy: Feminism and the Politics of Difference\u003cbr\u003e 7. National Nightmares: The Liberal Bourgeoisie and Racial Anxiety\u003cbr\u003e 8. America Inc. - The Crisis at Yale: A Tale of Two Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFictions of the Folk \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Reinventing History\/Imagining the Future\u003cbr\u003e 10. Proletarian or Revolutionary Literature? C.L.R. James and the Politics of the Trinidadian Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e 11. Ideologies of Black Folk: The Historical Novel of Slavery \u003cbr\u003e 12. On Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee \u003cbr\u003e 13. The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDispatches from the Multicultural Wars \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. Schooling in Babylon\u003cbr\u003e 15. Multiculture \u003cbr\u003e 16. The Racism behind the Rioting\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Blackness of Theory\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Canon: Civil War and Reconstruction\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Multicultural Wars, Part One \u003cbr\u003e 20. The Multicultural Wars, Part Two \u003cbr\u003e 21. Imagining Black Men: The Politics of Cultural Identity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Saidiya Hartman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carby disrupts fixed notions of racial identity that contort our understanding of Britain’s colonial and postcolonial history.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Paul Gilroy, author of \u003ci\u003eDarker Than Blue and The Black Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hazel Carby is a foundational scholar of race, class, and empire as critical lenses for understanding culture.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Elizabeth Alexander, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Light of the World and American Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHazel V. Carby\u003c\/b\u003e is a co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eCultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America; Race Men\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eReconstructing Womanhood\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304758464741,"sku":"NP9781804295717","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804295717.jpg?v=1767724360","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/cultures-in-babylon-isbn-9781804295717","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}