Janee Armstrong 2022 Memorial Lecture: Professor Hazel Carby
Join the BMC Center for Social Sciences for the Janee Armstrong Memorial Lecture, “Landscapes of Environmental Racism: Exposure,” by Hazel Carby, professor emerita of African and African American Studies at Yale University, 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 16 in Old Library, Great Hall.
Professor Carby, HonFLSW, FRSA, is the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Professor Emeritus of American Studies Yale University, and the Centennial Professor at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics.
Carby is the author of Imperial Intimacies, A Tale of Two Islands (Verso, 2019) selected as one of the “Books of the Year for 2019,” by the Times Literary Supplement. Winner of the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, 2020. Finalist John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, ASA, 2020. Highly Commended PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, 2020. Author of Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America (1999); Race Men (1998); Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (1987); Hazel Carby is also a co-author of The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain (1982).
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