Imperial Intimacies av Hazel V Carby

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<i><b>Winner of the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020<br><br>Highly commended for PEN Hessell–Tiltman Prize 2020 </b></i><br><br><b>A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman’s family story</b><br><br>“Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby’s place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt.<br><br> Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby’s working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers se