Imperial IntimaciesWhere are you from? was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in postWorld War II London. One of the so called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carbys place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family to each other in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic.