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Stuart Hall: Selected Writings
Selected Writings on Race and Difference
In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora. Spanning the whole of his career, this collection includes classic theoretical essays such as “The Whites of Their Eyes� (1981) and “Race, the Floating Signifier� (1997). It also features public lectures, political articles, and popular pieces that circulated in periodicals and newspapers, which demonstrate the breadth and depth of Hall's contribution to public discourses of race. Foregrounding how and why the analysis of race and difference should be concrete and not merely descriptive, this collection gives organizers and students of social theory ways to approach the interconnections of race with culture and consciousness, state and society, policing and freedom.
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First published April 2, 2021
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Stuart Hall
192Ìýbooks371ÌýfollowersStuart Hall was an influential Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist. He was Professor of Sociology at the Open University, the founding editor of New Left Review, and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.
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June 28, 2021
I really learned a lot from this collection of essays that spans 50 years of Stuart Hall's scholarship. Part I (Riots, Race, and Representation) does a great job of defining how race operates, and his focus on race relations in Britain was interesting to compare to the United States, particularly at the height of radicalism in the 1950s/1960s. Part II (The Politics of Intellectual Work Against Racism) covers really great pedagogical theory and ethnic identity in the Caribbean, as well as one of my favorite essays, C.L.R. James, A Portrait. Part III was BY FAR my favorite, titled Cultural and Multicultural Questions, with essays like Gramsci's Relevance, Making Diasporic Identities, Why Fanon?, and Europe and Its Myths. There's so much material in this collection (and I'll eventually get through his other collection just published on Marxism), but it's absolutely worth the time to sit with and engage. I'll definitely be revisiting many of these essays in the future. Stuart Hall was a giant.
October 29, 2023
Didn’t read this cover to cover, and it’s a bit too academic for me. Despite that it’s a useful introduction to Stuart Hall
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