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Cultures in Babylon : Black Britain and African America

Author: Hazel V Carby
Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 1999.
Series: Haymarket series.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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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.

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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  Read more...

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