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Imperial intimacies : a tale of two islands

text Imperial intimacies : a tale of two islands

Carby, Hazel V.

Summary
"A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To an... Read more
Contents
Part One: Inventories : Where are you from? -- Becoming British: Iris -- Becoming British: Carl -- Lost -- Part Two: Calculations : Fictions of racial logic -- Contagion -- Brown babies -- Half-caste -- Part Three: Dead Reconing : Home : The moth ... Read more
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Description
x, 400 pages : illustrations, portraits, plan ; 25 cm
Publisher
Verso 2019
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 929.2 CAR in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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