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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/in-practice-race-was-a-sliding-signifier-in-jamaica-the-social/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/identity-is-becoming-more-dependent-on-what-people-are-willing/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

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## More by Stuart Hall

> [My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/my-family-belonged-to-a-very-particular-formation-middle-class-and/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

> [I would say that New Labour come closer to institutionalising neoliberalism as a social and political form than Thatcher did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/i-would-say-that-new-labour-come-closer-to-institutionalising/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

> [People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/people-have-to-have-a-language-to-speak-about-where-they-are-and-what/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/the-very-notion-of-great-britain-s-greatness-is-bound-up-with-empire/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

> [“In practice, race was a sliding signifier in Jamaica. The social slippage – the sliding of the signifier – was extensive, constitutive of social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/in-practice-race-was-a-sliding-signifier-in-jamaica-the-social/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/the-dubois-institute-in-the-heart-of-harvard-is-an-extremely/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/thatcherism-as-an-ideology-addresses-the-fears-the-anxieties-the-lost/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

> [The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/the-question-of-hegemony-is-always-the-question-of-a-new-cultural/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/against-the-urgency-of-people-dying-in-the-streets-what-in-god-s-name/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/i-thought-i-might-find-the-real-me-in-oxford-civil-rights-made-me/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

> [“Music has been called 'the most noise conveying the least information”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/music-has-been-called-the-most-noise-conveying-the-least-information/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/culture-comes-into-play-at-precisely-the-point-where-biological/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/while-every-effort-is-being-undertaken-to-make-the-memory-of-the/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

> [Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/race-is-more-like-a-language-than-it-is-like-the-way-in-which-we-are/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/i-have-a-funny-relationship-to-the-british-working-class-movement-i-m/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

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