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Dr. Carby is considered a pioneer in black feminism and is also known as one of the world ’ s leading scholars on race, gender, and African American issues.

One of her most influential contributions to African Diaspora studies came with her first book, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist.

Reconstructing Womanhood offers one of the earliest and most comprehensive studies on black female writers including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Anna Cooper, and Ida B.

Wells among others.

Carby followed this book with Race Men: The Body and Soul of Race, Nation, and Manhood.

After Race Men, she penned Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America.

Currently she is working on her forthcoming book, Child of Empire.

Carby has lectured at numerous colleges and universities worldwide including Columbia University, Stanford University, the University of Paris, and University of Toronto.