Britain is not homogenous; it was never a society without conflict. The English fought tooth and nail over everything we know of as English political virtues - rule of law, free speech, the franchise. — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would say that New Labour come closer to institutionalising neoliberalism as a social and political form than Thatcher did. — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them. — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In practice, race was a sliding signifier in Jamaica. The social slippage – the sliding of the signifier – was extensive, constitutive of social life itself. There were wide skin colour variations even within the same family, as was the case in my own. Jamaican society gossiped, monitored intensely and speculated riotously about this perpetual, confusing fluidity of the body.… — Stuart Hall Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order. — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
“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 who is into cultural studies seriously as an intellectual practice, must feel, on their pulse, its ephemerality, its insubstantiality, how little it registers, how little we've been able to change anything or get anybody to do… — Stuart Hall Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
“Music has been called 'the most noise conveying the least information” — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
