Twenty-fifth anniversary edition of transatlantic Black feminist classic
Hazel V. Carby Book order
Hazel V. Carby is a pioneering figure in Black feminism and a leading global scholar on race, gender, and African American issues. Her work critically examines the discrepancies between the symbolic constructions of Black experience and the actual lives of African Americans. Employing a Marxist feminist perspective, her scholarship delves into themes of race, gender, and sexuality through the literature and culture of the Caribbean diaspora and postcolonial studies. She offers profound insights into the representation of Black women's bodies and experiences within cultural and literary narratives.
- 2024
- 2019
Imperial Intimacies
- 416 pages
- 15 hours of reading
A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story
- 2000
Race Men
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Carby analyzes the changing image of black masculinity in popular culture from W.E.B. Du Bois to current Hollywood actors and describes the effect of that image on black and white society, culture, and politics and its relevance for black women.
- 1999
A collection of the author's essays on multicultural education, covering 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 female blues artists.