My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to… — Stuart Hall Connection 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 Come 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 Language 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… — Stuart Hall Great Copy Share Image
“In practice, race was a sliding signifier in Jamaica. The social slippage – the sliding of the signifier – was extensive, constitutive… — Stuart Hall Life 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… — Stuart Hall Heart 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… — Stuart Hall Community Copy Share Image
The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order. — Stuart Hall Always 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… — Stuart Hall Critical theory 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… — Stuart Hall Civil rights Copy Share Image
“Music has been called 'the most noise conveying the least information” — Stuart Hall Music 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… — Stuart Hall Culture Copy Share Image
While every effort is being undertaken to make the memory of the Thatcher government disappear, Thatcherism is still working its way through… — Stuart Hall Effort Copy Share Image
Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted. — Stuart Hall Language Copy Share Image
I have a funny relationship to the British working class movement... I'm in it, but not culturally of it... I was aware… — Stuart Hall Face to face Copy Share Image
I came to the U.K. at the age of 19 and I didn't know anything about the working-class tradition, the Labour Party… — Stuart Hall Age Copy Share Image
The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological,… — Stuart Hall Intellectual Copy Share Image
If I have to read another cultural studies analysis of 'The Sopranos,' I give up. There's an awful lot of rubbish around… — Stuart Hall Analysis Copy Share Image
I'm the blackest member of my family. You know, these mixed families produce children of all colors, and in Jamaica, the question… — Stuart Hall Beginning Copy Share Image
“The right of the labour movement, to be honest, has no ideas of any compelling quality, except the instinct for short-term political… — Stuart Hall Labour movement Copy Share Image
Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions. — Stuart Hall Identity Copy Share Image
Popular culture is one of the sites where this struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged: it is… — Stuart Hall Culture Copy Share Image
I tend to think some things are off-limits. Not in the sense that you should not be able to say them, but… — Stuart Hall Care Copy Share Image
There's no permanent, fixed class consciousness. You can't work out immediately what people think and what politics they have simply by looking… — Stuart Hall Class consciousness Copy Share Image
“Yesterday's deconstructions are often tomorrow's orthodox clichés.” — Stuart Hall Deconstructionism Copy Share Image