Twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of a transatlantic Black feminist
classic
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.
