# Hazel Carby

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{{Short description|American academic (born 1948)}}
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'''Hazel Vivian Carby''' (born 15 January 1948 in [Okehampton](/source/Okehampton), Devon)<ref>{{cite web|last=Tsakanias |first=Caroline |date=4 August 2018 |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/carby-hazel-v-1948/ |title=Hazel V. Carby (1948– ) |publisher=[BlackPast.org](/source/BlackPast.org) |access-date=9 June 2023}}</ref> is Professor Emerita of [African American Studies](/source/African_American_Studies) and of [American Studies](/source/American_Studies). She served as Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and American Studies at [Yale University](/source/Yale_University).

== Early life and education ==
Hazel Carby was born to Jamaican and Welsh parents in [Okehampton](/source/Okehampton), [Devon](/source/Devon), UK, on 15 January 1948. She earned a BA degree in English and history from [Portsmouth Polytechnic](/source/Portsmouth_Polytechnic) in 1970, then a [PGCE](/source/Professional_Graduate_Certificate_in_Education) in 1972, at the [Institute of Education](/source/Institute_of_Education), [London University](/source/London_University). She taught high school from 1972 to 1979, then went back to university, at [Birmingham University](/source/Birmingham_University) [Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies](/source/Centre_for_Contemporary_Cultural_Studies), where she gained a M.A (1979) and a Ph.D. (1984).<ref>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/carby-hazel-1948 "Carby, Hazel 1948–"], Encyclopedia.com.</ref>

== Career ==
In 1981, Carby was appointed as a lecturer in the English Department at [Yale University](/source/Yale_University) (1981–82), after which she taught English at [Wesleyan University](/source/Wesleyan_University) (1982–89), and rejoined Yale University in 1989. She is now Yale's Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and American Studies.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://afamstudies.yale.edu/people/hazel-carby|title=Hazel Carby |publisher=Department of African American Studies |access-date=29 December 2018}}</ref> Her teaching focuses on race, gender and sexuality in Caribbean and diasporic culture and literature; in transnational and postcolonial literature and theory; in representations of the black female body; and in genres of science fiction.<ref name=":0" />

One of her contributions to African Diaspora studies came with her first book, ''[Reconstructing Womanhood](/source/Reconstructing_Womanhood): The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist'' (1987). ''Reconstructing Womanhood'' offers studies on black female writers including [Frances Ellen Watkins Harper](/source/Frances_Ellen_Watkins_Harper), [Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins](/source/Pauline_Elizabeth_Hopkins), [Anna Cooper](/source/Anna_Cooper), and [Ida B. Wells](/source/Ida_B._Wells), among others. Carby followed this book with ''[Race Men: The Body and Soul of Race, Nation, and Manhood](/source/Race_Men%3A_The_Body_and_Soul_of_Race%2C_Nation%2C_and_Manhood)'' (1998), a six-essay collection of critiques on historical sites of black masculinity. Her first chapter, "Souls Of Black Men", is a critique of the gender bias in [W. E. B. Du Bois](/source/W._E._B._Du_Bois)' seminal work ''[The Souls of Black Folk](/source/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk)'' (1903). Carby argues that [double consciousness](/source/double_consciousness) is an erasure of Black female subjectivity. She does not question the importance of this text in black scholarship; she recognizes that because of the crucial status of Du Bois and ''Souls'' it is important that she undertakes this critique. After ''Race Men'', she penned ''Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America'' (1999). In 2019 she published, to wide critical acclaim, an autobiographical account of the B''ritish Empire: Imperial Intimacies : A Tale of Two Islands'' (2019). Carby has lectured at colleges and universities worldwide including the [University of Notre Dame](/source/University_of_Notre_Dame), [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University), the [University of Paris](/source/University_of_Paris), and the [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto).

Carby serves on the advisory board of the academic journals ''[Differences](/source/Differences_(journal))'', ''[New Formations](/source/New_Formations)'' and ''[Signs](/source/Signs_(journal))''.<ref>{{Project MUSE|47|type=journal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://signsjournal.org/about-signs/masthead/|title=Masthead|date=22 August 2012|work=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society|access-date=23 August 2017}}</ref>

==Awards==
Carby's 2019 book ''Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands'' ([Verso](/source/Verso_Books)) won the [British Academy](/source/British_Academy)'s 2020 [Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding](/source/Nayef_Al-Rodhan_Prize_for_Global_Cultural_Understanding).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/carbys-exceptional-history-british-empire-scoops-25000-nayef-al-rodhan-prize-1223438|title=Carby's 'exceptional' history of British Empire scoops £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize|work=[The Bookseller](/source/The_Bookseller)|first=Katherine|last= Cowdrey|date=27 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-detail/hazel-v-carby-wins-nayef-al-rodhan-prize/|title=Hazel V Carby wins Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize|first=Lucy |last=Nathan|date=28 October 2020}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Carby married fellow Yale professor [Michael Denning](/source/Michael_Denning) on 29 May 1982.

==Bibliography==
===Books===
* ''Multicultural Fictions'', Birmingham: Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, 1980. {{ISBN|9780704405059}}, {{OCLC|35622246}}
* ''[Reconstructing Womanhood](/source/Reconstructing_Womanhood): The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist''. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. {{ISBN|9780195041644}}, {{OCLC|489583830}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Keller |first1=Frances Richardson |title=Hazel V. Carby. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford University Press. 1987. Pp. 223. $19.95 |journal=The American Historical Review |date=June 1989 |volume=94 |issue=3 |page=875 |doi=10.1086/ahr/94.3.875 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |id={{ProQuest|1311726639}} |last1=Johnson |first1=Cheryl |title=Review of ''Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist'' by Hazel Carby (Book Review) |journal=Discourse |volume=12 |issue=2 |date=Spring 1990 |pages=179 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Conn |first1=Peter |title=Review of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist |journal=The Modern Language Review |date=1991 |volume=86 |issue=3 |pages=702–703 |id={{ProQuest|1293730032}} |doi=10.2307/3731050 |jstor=3731050 |url=http://digitale-objekte.hbz-nrw.de/storage2/2015/11/04/file_1/6495624.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stripes |first1=James D. |title=Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. |journal=Black American Literature Forum |date=1990 |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=815–820 |doi=10.2307/3041806|jstor=3041806 |url=http://digitale-objekte.hbz-nrw.de/storage2/2015/11/04/file_1/6495624.pdf }}</ref>
* ''Race Men: The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures''. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. {{ISBN|9780674745582}}, {{OCLC|984382678}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ross |first1=Marlon Bryan |title=Race Men (review) |journal=Modernism/Modernity |date=2000 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=313–315 |doi=10.1353/mod.2000.0045 |s2cid=145606558 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Morgan |first1=William M. |title=Race Men (review) |journal=American Literature |date= 1 December 1999 |volume=71 |issue=4 |pages=820–821 |id={{Project MUSE|1447}} }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Boamah-Wiafe |first1=Daniel |title=Race Men (review) |journal=Biography |date=2000 |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=403–407 |doi=10.1353/bio.2000.0003 |jstor=23540144 |s2cid=161838537 }}</ref>
* ''Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America''. London and New York: Verso, 1999. {{ISBN|978-1859848845}} {{OCLC|851741402}}
* ''Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands''. London: Verso, 2019. {{ISBN|9781788735094}}, {{OCLC|1099544754}}

===Selected articles===

* "Figuring the future in Los(t) Angeles". ''Comparative American Studies'', 1.1 (2003): 19–34.
* "What is This 'Black' in Irish Popular Culture?" ''[European Journal of Cultural Studies](/source/European_Journal_of_Cultural_Studies)'', 4.3 (2001): 325–349.
* "Can the Tactics of Cultural Integration Counter the Persistence of Political Apartheid? Or, The Multicultural Wars, Part Two". In [Austin Sarat](/source/Austin_Sarat) (ed.), ''Race, Law and Culture: Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 221–28.
* "National Nightmares: The Liberal Bourgeoisie and Racial Anxiety". In Herbert W. Harris, Howard C. Blue and [Ezra E. Griffith](/source/Ezra_E._H._Griffith) (eds), ''Racial and Ethnic Identity: Psychological Development and Creative Expression''. New York: Routledge, 1995. 173–91.
* "Race and the Academy: Feminism and the Politics of Difference". In Isabel Caldeira (ed.), ''O Canone Nos Estudos Anglo-Americanos''. Coimbra, Portugal: Livraria Minerva, 1994. 247–53.
* {{"'}}Hear My Voice, Ye Careless Daughters': Narratives of Slave and Free Women before Emancipation". In William L. Andrews (ed.), ''African American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical Essays''. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993. 59–76.
* "The Multicultural Wars". ''[Radical History Review](/source/Radical_History_Review)'', 54.7 (1992): 7–18.
* "Imagining Black Men: The Politics of Cultural Identity". ''[Yale Review](/source/Yale_Review)'', 80.3 (1992): 186–97.
* "Policing the Black Woman's Body in an Urban Context". ''[Critical Inquiry](/source/Critical_Inquiry)'', 18.4 (1992): 738–55.
* "The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology, and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston". In Michael Awkward (ed.), ''New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 71–93.
* "Re-inventing History/Imagining the Future". ''Black American Literature Forum'', 20.2 (1989): 381–87.
* "Proletarian or Revolutionary Literature: C. L. R. James and the Politics of the Trinidadian Renaissance". ''South Atlantic Quarterly'', 87 (1988): 39–52.
* "Ideologies of Black Folk: The Historical Novel of Slavery". In [Deborah E. McDowell](/source/Deborah_E._McDowell) and [Arnold Rampersad](/source/Arnold_Rampersad) (eds), ''Slavery and the Literary Imagination''. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. 125–43.
* "The Canon: Civil War and Reconstruction". ''[Michigan Quarterly Review](/source/Michigan_Quarterly_Review)''. 28.1 (1989): 35–43.
* "It Jus Be's Dat Way Sometime: The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues". ''Radical America'', 20 (1987): 9–22.
* {{"'}}On the Threshold of Woman's Era': Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory". ''Critical Inquiry'', 12.1 (1985): 262–77.
* "Schooling in Babylon". ''The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in Seventies Britain''. London: Hutchinson, 1982. 182–211.
* "White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood". ''The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in Seventies Britain''. London: Hutchinson, 1982. 212–235.

=== Other work ===

* "[https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n02/hazel-v.-carby/the-limits-of-caste The Limits of Caste]". ''London Review of Books''. Vol. 43, No. 2 · 21 January 2021. Related interview for the LRB Podcast [https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/lrb-conversations/the-colour-line-in-the-americas here.]

==References==
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== External links ==
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* [http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/carby/ Bio at Stanford]
* [http://www.yale.edu/wgss/faculty/carby-h.html/ Bio from Yale University]
* [http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns70/interview_carby.shtml/ Interview from The Minnesota Review]

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