“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… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
Identity is becoming more dependent on what people are willing subscribe to and less dependent on objective criteria such as skin colour or where they're born. Ways of identifying blackness are no longer black or white. It's not a case… — 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
I would say that New Labour come closer to institutionalising neoliberalism as a social and political form than Thatcher did. — Stuart Hall Copy Share
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
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
“In practice, race was a sliding signifier in Jamaica. The social slippage – the sliding of the signifier – was extensive, constitutive of social… — 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
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
“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 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
“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
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 Copy Share
Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted. — Stuart Hall Copy Share
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 Copy Share
