Yesterday's deconstructions are often tomorrow's orthodox…

My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy…

— Stuart Hall

I would say that New Labour come closer to institutionalising neoliberalism as a social and political form than Thatcher did.

— Stuart Hall

People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them.

— Stuart Hall

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose…

— Stuart Hall

“In practice, race was a sliding signifier in Jamaica. The social slippage – the sliding of the signifier – was extensive, constitutive of social…

— Stuart Hall

The DuBois Institute in the heart of Harvard is an extremely important political intervention and I'm delighted to be invited to speak here.

— Stuart Hall

Thatcherism, as an ideology, addresses the fears, the anxieties, the lost identities, of a people. It invites us to think about politics in images.…

— Stuart Hall

The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.

— Stuart Hall

“Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?...At that point, I think anybody…

— Stuart Hall

I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no such thing…

— Stuart Hall

“Music has been called 'the most noise conveying the least information”

— Stuart Hall

“culture comes into play at precisely the point where biological individuals become subjects, and that what lies between the two is not some automatically…

— Stuart Hall

While every effort is being undertaken to make the memory of the Thatcher government disappear, Thatcherism is still working its way through the system.

— Stuart Hall

Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted.

— Stuart Hall

I have a funny relationship to the British working class movement... I'm in it, but not culturally of it... I was aware that I'd…

— Stuart Hall