Imperial Intimacies by Hazel V. Carby
A Tale of Two Islands
A hybrid of memoir and history, this narrative follows a daughter’s investigation into her Welsh mother’s and Jamaican father’s intertwined lives to show how empire shaped their desires, opportunities, and intimate relationships. Moving between Britain and the Caribbean, it mines archives, family stories, and material culture to reveal how slavery, colonial schooling, labor, and migration were inscribed in domestic spaces and everyday decisions. Linking transatlantic economies—from sugar to credit and wartime service—to the making of race, gender, and class in postwar Britain, it exposes how imperial power persists within private life.
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- Published
- 2019
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 410-420
- Original Language
- English
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