Cultures in Babylon

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.

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