Hazel V. Carby

Hazel V. Carby is an emeritus professor of African American studies at Yale and the author of Imperial Intimacies, among other books. A version of her piece in this issue was delivered as the second of this year’s LRB Winter Lectures.

Remembering the Future

Hazel V. Carby, 4 April 2024

Aband​ of light, reflected across the waters of Morgan Lake, New Mexico, leads our eyes from the centre foreground to a power plant on the Navajo Reservation: the Four Corners Power Plant, one of the largest coal-fired generating stations in the United States. In this photograph by the Diné artist Will Wilson, the plant is entirely in shadow, as dark as the bituminous coal that fuels...

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