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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.
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.
A Note on the Text vii
Acknowledgments ix
General Introduction 1
Part I. Prologue: Class, Race, and Ethnicity
1. Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
[1986] 21
Part II. Deconstructing Identities: The Politics of
Anti-Essentialism
2. Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities [1991]
63
3. What Is This "Black" in Black Popular Culture? [1995]
83
4. The Multicultural Question [1998] 95
Part III. The Postcolonial and the Diasporic
5. The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power [1992] 141
6. The Formation of a Diasporic Intellectual: An Interview with
Kuan-Hsing Chen [1996] 185
7. Thinking the Diaspora: Home-Thoughts from Abroad [1999]
206
Part IV. Interviews and Reflections
8. Politics, Contingency, Strategy: An Interview with David Scott
[1997] 235
9. At Home and Not at Home: Stuart Hall in Conversation with Les
Back [2008] 263
Part V. Epilogue: Caribbean and Other Perspectives
10. Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life [2007] 303
Index 325
Place of First Publication 341
Stuart Hall (1932–2014) was one of the most prominent and
influential scholars and public intellectuals of his generation.
Hall appeared widely on British media, taught at the University of
Birmingham and the Open University, was the founding editor of New
Left Review, and served as the director of Birmingham's Centre for
Contemporary Cultural Studies. He is the author of Cultural Studies
1983: A Theoretical History; Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two
Islands; and other books also published by Duke University
Press.
David Morley is Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths, University
of London, and coeditor of Stuart Hall: Conversations, Projects,
and Legacies.
"Anyone whose work is informed, 'in the last instance,' by Cultural
Studies will find much that is helpfully familiar in it as well as
new connections, new applications, new ways of '[penetrating] the
disorderly surface of things to another level of understanding,' as
Hall says, invoking Marx, in the epilogue. This seems especially
urgent as the ascendancy of the far Right coincides with the
wholesale neoliberalization of the humanities, as Hall predicted in
his 'Theoretical Legacies' lecture. It is obviously not a question
of 'going back' to Hall for a truer or more 'authentic' form of
Cultural Studies than that in practice today. But there is much in
his legacy that illuminates the dynamics of the present, and much
to put into dialogue with contemporary scholarship and practice.
Morley's collection reminds us how important it is for genuine
intellectual work to articulate competing and contradictory
paradigms together, to work, as Hall did, from the points of
contestation and conflict rather than seek solace in abstractions.
This, finally, is the 'essential' in the essays assembled
here."
*American Book Review*
“Along with the other volumes that Duke University Press has
published, these two books of collected essays are to be welcomed.
They allow us to see a fertile mind in action, engaged in and with
the real world. It is a model well worth emulating.”
*Educational Policy*
"I have also narrated the effort it took for me to access his work
to illustrate the importance of the Selected Writings now being
released by Duke University Press. It is an event of profound
historical significance that a new generation will be able to begin
its political and theoretical education with systematic access to
Hall’s writing. . . . The two-volume Essential Essays shows the
broad scope of his work."
*The Point*
"It was one of Hall’s unique gifts to offer analysis of the moment
as it unfolded before our eyes. I am sure I am not alone in having
found his talks exhilarating in ways I could never quite
understand, given that the news he relayed with such energy was
almost unremittingly dire. Hall offered his readings as
interpretation and self-commentary, tracing his own intellectual
path."
*New York Review of Books*
"Hall’s essays discern the shape that contending forces of history
take in the moment. . . . Reading Essential Essays, Volume 2 at the
confluence of these crises—not as the sensational subjects of moral
panics but as the decisive and turning points in the planetary
future of life and social justice—confirms the necessity of, once
again, going back to Stuart Hall and learning from him the art of
cultivating what I will call the conjunctural imagination."
*SX Salon*
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