{"id":60537,"date":"2021-02-10T01:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T01:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60537"},"modified":"2021-02-10T01:42:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T01:42:57","slug":"a-family-history-of-british-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60537","title":{"rendered":"A Family History of British Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/a-family-history-of-british-empire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>A Family History of British Empire<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Perspectives<\/a><br \/>\n2021-02-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/people\/facstaff\/mhicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mary Hicks<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Black Studies and History<br \/>\n<em>Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/a-family-history-of-british-empire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aaihs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/710-Imperial-Intimacies-outtake-for-top-ftw-1.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you from?\u201d\u2014The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands<\/em><\/a>, the newest work by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/the-complexities-of-black-feminism-in-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black feminist<\/a> theorist, literary critic, and historian <a href=\"https:\/\/afamstudies.yale.edu\/people\/hazel-carby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hazel Carby<\/a>. This historical and existential query frames Carby\u2019s gripping exploration of her ambivalent relationship to idealized \u201cBritishness\u201d as the child of a white, working-class Welsh mother and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/tag\/race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black<\/a>, Jamaican father born in 1940s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London<\/a>. The omnipresent demand by strangers that she produce a satisfying account of her origins exemplifies her experiences as an unlocatable and thus unimaginable subject (98). Her own emotionally charged childhood memories ground Carby\u2019s evocative examination of the intertwined nature of intimacy, race, and labor in the British Empire, stretching from the period following <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World War II<\/a> back to the revolutionary wars of the late eighteenth century.<\/p>\n<p><em>Imperial Intimacies<\/em> begins with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Gramsci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gramscian<\/a> imperative to reconstruct, and at times invent, one\u2019s personal genealogy, not only in fact but in feeling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/a-family-history-of-british-empire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhere are you from?\u201d\u2014The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of &#8220;Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,&#8221; the newest work by Black feminist theorist, literary critic, and historian Hazel Carby. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,1245,5,21,459,8,10],"tags":[26485,970,967,31295,31294,31297],"class_list":["post-60537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-biography","category-book-reviews","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-black-perspectives","tag-hazel-carby","tag-hazel-v-carby","tag-mary-e-hicks","tag-mary-ellen-hicks","tag-mary-hicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60540,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60537\/revisions\/60540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}