From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume set—brings together Stuart Hall's most influential and foundational works. Spanning the whole of his career, these volumes reflect the breadth and depth of his intellectual and political projects while demonstrating their continued vitality and importance.
Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora draws from Hall's later essays, in which he investigated questions of colonialism, empire, and race. It opens with “Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,” which frames the volume and finds Hall rethinking received notions of racial essentialism. In addition to essays on multiculturalism and globalization, black popular culture, and Western modernity's racial underpinnings, Volume 2 contains three interviews with Hall, in which he reflects on his life to theorize his identity as a colonial and diasporic subject.
Author(s): Stuart Hall; David Morley
Series: Stuart Hall: Selected Writings
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 352
City: Durham
Contents......Page 6
A Note on the Text......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
General Introduction......Page 12
Part I | Prologue: Class, Race, and Ethnicity......Page 28
One. Gramsci’s Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity [1986]......Page 32
Part II | Deconstructing Identities: The Politics of Anti-Essentialism......Page 66
Two. Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities [1991]......Page 74
Three. What Is This “Black” in Black Popular Culture? [1992]......Page 94
Four. The Multicultural Question [2000]......Page 106
Part III | The Postcolonial and the Diasporic......Page 146
Five. The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power [1992]......Page 152
Six. The Formation of a Diasporic Intellectual: An Interview with Stuart Hall by Kuan-Hsing Chen [1996]......Page 196
Seven. Thinking the Diaspora: Home-Thoughts from Abroad [1999]......Page 217
Part IV | Interviews and Reflections......Page 238
Eight. Politics, Contingency, Strategy: An Interview with David Scott [1997]......Page 246
Nine. At Home and Not at Home: Stuart Hall in Conversation with Les Back [2008]......Page 274
Part V | Epilogue: Caribbean and Other Perspectives......Page 312
Ten. Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life [2007]......Page 314
A......Page 336
B......Page 337
C......Page 338
D......Page 340
F......Page 341
H......Page 342
I......Page 343
L......Page 344
M......Page 345
N......Page 346
P......Page 347
R......Page 348
S......Page 349
U......Page 350
Y......Page 351
Place of First Publication......Page 352
