I got involved in cultural studies because I didn't think life was purely economically determined. I took all this up as an… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home. I'm not English and I never will be. The life… — 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… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
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
