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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Carby, Hazel V. Cultures in Babylon. London ; New York : Verso, 1999 (OCoLC)606420426 Online version: Carby, Hazel V. Cultures in Babylon. London ; New York : Verso, 1999 (OCoLC)608555842 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hazel V Carby |
| ISBN: | 1859848842 9781859848845 185984281X 9781859842812 |
| OCLC Number: | 42035800 |
| Description: | vi, 282 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Women, migration and the formation of a blues culture. The sexual politics of women's blues -- Policing the black woman's body in an urban context -- Black women's blues, Motown and rock and roll -- They put a spell on you -- Black feminist interventions. White woman listen! Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood -- Race and the academy: feminism and the politics of difference -- National nightmares: the liberal bourgeoisie and racial anxiety -- America inc.--the crisis at Yale: a tale of two women -- Fictions of the folk. Reinventing history/imagining the future -- Proletarian or revolutionary literature? C.L.R. James and the politics of the Trinidadian renaissance -- Ideologies of black folk: the historical novel of slavery -- On Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee -- The politics of fiction, anthropology and the folk: Zora Neale Hurston -- Dispatches from the multicultural wars. Schooling in Babylon -- Multiculture -- The racism behind the rioting -- The blackness of theory -- The canon: Civil War and Reconstruction -- The multicultural wars, part one -- The multicultural wars, part two -- Imagining black men: the politics of cultural identity. |
| Series Title: | Haymarket series. |
| Responsibility: | Hazel V. Carby. |
Abstract:
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.
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