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“Like Dana, the main character in Octavia Butler’s KINDRED—who finds herself teleported into the plantations of the antebellum past—Hazel Carby traces her African and European lineage in IMPERIAL INTIMACIES,” writes @taoleighgoffe:https://buff.ly/2uYFs4g 

As we kick off a series on @Yale scholar Hazel V. Carby’s IMPERIAL INTIMACIES, Prof. Carby talks to Tao Leigh Goffe about silences in imperial histories, Jane Austen and Caryl Phillips, and her epiphanies about how Jamaica and Britain connect.https://buff.ly/2Uhtygt 

“We cannot rely upon conventional narrative forms to tell stories that have not been told before—because of various historical oppressions, or because of the silences in colonial archives.” Hazel V. Carby on her new book IMPERIAL INTIMACIES @VersoBooks:https://buff.ly/2S7IKK8 

IMPERIAL INTIMACIES shows the cultural and filial entanglements that connect two colonized places: Wales and Jamaica. A multiplicity of intimate acts of remembering, researching, and writing counter the potential forgetting of this history.https://buff.ly/37XWMoG 

The fact that, until recently, the sun never set on the British Empire should be a point of shame, not pride. And yet, the sun has finally set. And so, Carby writes, the important question is: Who inherits?https://buff.ly/31niakt 

"There is the young me, who, like the young Hazel, buried herself in books. I also did so in order to escape the perennial 1950s question—'Where are you from?'" Gloria Wekker responds to Hazel V. Carby's new book with her own tale of imperial intimacies.https://buff.ly/2S2nwyx 

Done well, memoirs people the past, putting their reader in touch with affects, intentions, and relations that animate history in palpable and revelatory ways. IMPERIAL INTIMACIES by Hazel V. Carby is one such offering, writes @fathermenblog.https://buff.ly/2RZslZA 

For the sixth time in the last 20 years, Alaskan fires have burned an area more than the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Highway 1 is full of soot. #PublicBookshelf #PublicStreets #Alaskahttps://buff.ly/36OJHwc 

After studying the imperial entanglements of Britain and Jamaica for decades, @Yale professor emerita Hazel V. Carby realized she had been writing IMPERIAL INTIMACIES her whole life. Today kicks off a week of responses to Carby’s sweeping, searching book:https://buff.ly/396hZwu 

As part of our weeklong series on Hazel V. Carby, @AfricanaCU Assistant Professor @taoleighgoffe steps into her role as PhDJ to bring us the IMPERIAL INTIMACIES Mixtape. Feat. broken industrial landscapes, 1950s newsreel, and a robot labor force.https://buff.ly/2GSNQVG 

“I want people to see that the history of enslavement has so many deep consequences. These consequences affect ordinary people who have been conscripted into becoming imperial citizens.” Hazel V. Carby on her innovative new book, IMPERIAL INTIMACIES:https://buff.ly/39fplyb 

This week’s #PublicBookshelf revisits essays from our #PublicStreets series. Chris Moffat reveals the challenges of restoring an abandoned public meeting building in Lahore without losing its history of anticolonial assembly.https://buff.ly/31iSdm1 

Every technology for verifying identity is inevitably directed at two simultaneous questions: What person is that? And what *type* of person is that?https://buff.ly/2TYh8tw 

“Rule, Britannia!”—sung at football games, with the lines “Britannia rule the waves / Britons never, never, never shall be slaves”—does not resonate for those of us who are the descendants of enslaved Africans, @taoleighgoffe writes.https://buff.ly/37ULVMd 

For Anna Kornbluh of @UICLAS, there is freedom—rather than negative constraint—to be found in form and formalism. @dbenjw considers the invigorating claims in THE ORDER OF FORMS. @KateHolterhoff @quadrismegistus @morganbenjamin @nathankhensley @ecourtemhttps://buff.ly/37AngMK 

Hazel V. Carby's IMPERIAL INTIMACIES (@penguinrandom) asks us to dwell on what it means for the inherited to inherit. @mixed_race @HenryLouisGates @galdemzinehttps://buff.ly/3b7rspo 

Thatcherism's grandchildren have inherited not just the era’s austerity, perhaps as Reagan’s grandchildren did in the US, but also a wealth of knowledge production and critical theory from the birth of black British cultural studies.https://buff.ly/370w1i8 

“When British historians argue that an understanding of Britishness was formed in the #18thC, they are speaking of a narrow definition of Britishness. They neglect black citizens who lived in the heart of the country," says Hazel V. Carby.https://buff.ly/2GSaehW 

"Even centuries-old neighborhoods like those within the Walled City, Lahore’s historic center are being sanitized and securitized as heritage architecture is mobilized to develop tourist economies." #PublicBookshelf #PublicStreetshttps://buff.ly/31dODK8 

For young upwardly mobile women in urban India, ride-hailing apps have meant "more convenient access to the pleasures of the city, especially at night, when modes of public transportation are virtually non-existent.” #PublicBookshelf #PublicStreetshttps://buff.ly/2RNgHkd