Hazel V. Carby is the multi-award-winning author of Imperial Intimacies and Reconstructing Womanhood, and co-author of The Empire Strikes Back. For three decades she taught at Yale University as the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and Professor of American Studies.
At every turn, Carby refuses to tell a tidy or convenient story and instead produces an account of empire that is as expansive as it is heartbreaking. * Saidiya Hartman * Carby disrupts fixed notions of racial identity that contort our understanding of Britain's colonial and postcolonial history. * Paul Gilroy, author of Darker Than Blue and The Black Atlantic * Hazel Carby is a foundational scholar of race, class, and empire as critical lenses for understanding culture. * Elizabeth Alexander, author of The Light of the World and American Sublime *