Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Hazel Carby
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“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of “Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,” the newest work by Black feminist theorist, literary critic, and historian Hazel Carby.
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Over the decades of her transatlantic career, distinguished Yale University professor emerita of American and African American studies Hazel V. Carby has considered how one negotiates ancestral ties to two islands intimately entangled by empire, Britain and Jamaica. Her new book, “Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,” is her answer to that question.
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After my school experiences, any demands to explain where I came from disconcerted me. My parents taught me to hold my head erect, to look directly at adults who addressed me, to smile with my eyes not just my teeth, to speak clearly, and to be conspicuously open, transparent and honest. My dad said that…
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My Welsh mother met my father during the war. From childhood, I have grown to dread the question: ‘Where are you from?’
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An account of how a young black girl, growing up in South London, had to learn to negotiate the racial fictions of post World War Two Britain, drawn from Dr. Carby’s forthcoming book, “Imperial Intimacies” (Verso 2019).
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In “Imperial Intimacies,” Hazel Carby weaves together the story of colonialism and the story of her family.
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Autobiography and archival research collide in Hazel Carby’s memoir
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A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman’s search through her family’s story
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Afrofuturism’s Others Tate Modern Starr Auditorium Bankside London SE1 9TG Saturday, 2013-06-15, 14:00-16:00 BST (Local Time) Ellen Gallagher, Deluxe 2004–5 (detail) Mixed media, 60 frames, 38.9 x 32 cm each Tate Photography © Tate Ellen Gallagher’s work deconstructs received truths and weaves together propositional narratives, inhabiting spaces where the future collapses into the past, obsolescence…
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Becoming Modern Racialized Subjects: Detours through our pasts to produce ourselves anew Cultural Studies Volume 23, Number 4 (July 2009) pages 624-657 DOI: 10.1080/09502380902950948 Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies Yale University This essay is a close engagement with the work of Stuart Hall which has been…