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Cultures in Babylon
Feminism from Black Britain to African America
Series: Feminist Classics
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Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby's most important and influential essays, Cultures in Babylon analyses 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, Cultures in Babylon quickly became...
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Twenty-fifth anniversary edition of transatlantic Black feminist classic
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Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby's most important and influential essays, Cultures in Babylon analyses 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, Cultures 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.
Series: Feminist Classics
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Cultures in Babylon
Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby's most important and influential essays, Cultures in Babylon analyses 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, Cultures in Babylon quickly became a standard reference point in debates over race, ethnicity, and gender. With a new...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781804295717
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 March 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Edition: New edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 272g
Pages: 288
About the Author
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.
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