Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby's most important and influential essays, Cultures in Bablyon analysed diverse aspects of US and British culture. Carby's writing is invariably sharp and provocative, her political insights shrewd and often against the grain. A powerful intervention, Culture in Babylon quickly became a standard reference point in debates over race, ethnicity and gender.

With a new introduction by Saidiya Hartman and a new afterword by the author.