Full Description
Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby's most important and influential essays, Cultures in Babylon 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, Cultures in Babylon quickly became a standard reference point in debates over race, ethnicity, and gender.
Contents
Introduction
Women, Migration and the Formation of a Blues Culture
1. The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues
2. Policing the Black Woman's Body in an Urban Context
3. Black Women's Blues, Motown and Rock and Roll
4. They Put a Spell on You
Black Feminist Interventions
5. White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood
6. Race and the Academy: Feminism and the Politics of Difference
7. National Nightmares: The Liberal Bourgeoisie and Racial Anxiety
8. America Inc. - The Crisis at Yale: A Tale of Two Women
Fictions of the Folk
9. Reinventing History/Imagining the Future
10. Proletarian or Revolutionary Literature? C.L.R. James and the Politics of the Trinidadian Renaissance
11. Ideologies of Black Folk: The Historical Novel of Slavery
12. On Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee
13. The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston
Dispatches from the Multicultural Wars
14. Schooling in Babylon
15. Multiculture
16. The Racism behind the Rioting
17. The Blackness of Theory
18. The Canon: Civil War and Reconstruction
19. The Multicultural Wars, Part One
20. The Multicultural Wars, Part Two
21. Imagining Black Men: The Politics of Cultural Identity
Acknowledgments
Index
