CAROL BAILEY is a visiting professor at Amherst College. She is the author of A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction and co-editor (with Stephanie McKenzie) of Pamela Mordecai’s A Fierce and Green Place (2022).

"Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a defining book for our times. Carol Bailey offers a fresh analysis of the ways the racist underpinnings of globalized capitalism work to systemize the erasure of black lives dispersed, corralled, and active within urban geographies. The book’s meticulous attention to particularity and difference in different locales and texts-a wide sweep from Kingston to Antwerp, Lagos to New York, London to Toronto-is what makes its argument most compelling. Writing the Back Diasporic City is a salutary antidote to prevailing activist discourses of black victimhood."  - Curdella Forbes (author of From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gen) "Carol Bailey’s Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a powerful, nuanced, and ground-breaking interrogation of the gendered experiences-challenges and triumphs-of people of African descent in global cities. It is a brilliant and indispensable addition to the literature of the Black diaspora. Bailey seamlessly merges history, theory, and close textual reading in an accessible way." - Katwiwa Mule (author of Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's Dram)

• Introduction 1. “Natty Dread Rise Again”: The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora in Man Gone Down2. “Putting the Best Outside”: A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call the Midwife and NW3. The Transnational Semicircle and the “Mobile” Female Subjectin Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street4. “Writing the Sprawling City”: The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A Brief History of Seven Killings5. A Door Ajar: Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster’s Sleep On, BelovedConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

CAROL BAILEY is a visiting professor at Amherst College. She is the author of A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction and co-editor (with Stephanie McKenzie) of Pamela Mordecai’s A Fierce and Green Place (2022).

"Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a defining book for our times. Carol Bailey offers a fresh analysis of the ways the racist underpinnings of globalized capitalism work to systemize the erasure of black lives dispersed, corralled, and active within urban geographies. The book’s meticulous attention to particularity and difference in different locales and texts-a wide sweep from Kingston to Antwerp, Lagos to New York, London to Toronto-is what makes its argument most compelling. Writing the Back Diasporic City is a salutary antidote to prevailing activist discourses of black victimhood."  - Curdella Forbes (author of From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gen) "Carol Bailey’s Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a powerful, nuanced, and ground-breaking interrogation of the gendered experiences-challenges and triumphs-of people of African descent in global cities. It is a brilliant and indispensable addition to the literature of the Black diaspora. Bailey seamlessly merges history, theory, and close textual reading in an accessible way." - Katwiwa Mule (author of Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's Dram)

• Introduction 1. “Natty Dread Rise Again”: The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora in Man Gone Down2. “Putting the Best Outside”: A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call the Midwife and NW3. The Transnational Semicircle and the “Mobile” Female Subjectin Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street4. “Writing the Sprawling City”: The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A Brief History of Seven Killings5. A Door Ajar: Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster’s Sleep On, BelovedConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

CAROL BAILEY is a visiting professor at Amherst College. She is the author of A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction and co-editor (with Stephanie McKenzie) of Pamela Mordecai’s A Fierce and Green Place (2022).

"Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a defining book for our times. Carol Bailey offers a fresh analysis of the ways the racist underpinnings of globalized capitalism work to systemize the erasure of black lives dispersed, corralled, and active within urban geographies. The book’s meticulous attention to particularity and difference in different locales and texts-a wide sweep from Kingston to Antwerp, Lagos to New York, London to Toronto-is what makes its argument most compelling. Writing the Back Diasporic City is a salutary antidote to prevailing activist discourses of black victimhood."  - Curdella Forbes (author of From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gen) "Carol Bailey’s Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a powerful, nuanced, and ground-breaking interrogation of the gendered experiences-challenges and triumphs-of people of African descent in global cities. It is a brilliant and indispensable addition to the literature of the Black diaspora. Bailey seamlessly merges history, theory, and close textual reading in an accessible way." - Katwiwa Mule (author of Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's Dram)

• Introduction 1. “Natty Dread Rise Again”: The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora in Man Gone Down2. “Putting the Best Outside”: A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call the Midwife and NW3. The Transnational Semicircle and the “Mobile” Female Subjectin Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street4. “Writing the Sprawling City”: The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A Brief History of Seven Killings5. A Door Ajar: Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster’s Sleep On, BelovedConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex