Hazel V. Carby > Quotes

“The objective of stereotypes is not to reflect or represent a reality but to function as a disguise, or mystification, of objective social relations.”
― Hazel V. Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

“Pauline Hopkins shared this very real fear that black people were threatened with annihilation. She adressed her plea to "all Negroes, whether Frenchmen, Spaniards, Americans or Africans to rediscover their history as one weapon in the struggle against opression".”
― Hazel Carby