Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Race Is the Prism / Paul Gilroy 1
Part I. Riots, Race, and Representation
1. Absolute Beginnings: Reflections on the Secondary Modern
Generation [1959] 23
2. The Young Englanders [1967] 42
3. Black Men, White Media [1974] 51
4. Race and "Moral Panics" in Postwar Britain [1978] 56
5. Summer in the City [1981] 71
6. Drifting into a Law and Order Society: The 1979 Cobden Trust
Human Rights Day Lecture [1982] 78
7. The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media
[1981] 97
Part II. The Politics of Intellectual Work Against Racism
8. Teaching Race [1980] 123
9. Pluralism, Race and Class in Caribbean Society [1977]
136
10. "Africa" Is Alive and Well in the Diaspora: Cultures of
Resistance: Slavery, Religious Revival and Political Cultism in
Jamaica [1975] 161
11. Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance
[1980] 195
12. New Ethnicities [1983] 246
13. Cultural Identity and Diaspora [1990] 257
14. C. L. R. James: A Portrait [1992] 272
15. Calypso Kings [2002] 286
Part III. Cultural and Multicultural Questions
16. Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
[1968] 295
17. Subjects in History: Making Diasporic Identities [1998]
329
18. Why Fanon? [1996] 339
19. Race, the Floating Signifier: What More Is There to Say about
"Race"? [1997] 359
20. "In but Not of Europe": Europe and Its Myths [2003]
374
21. Cosmopolitan Promises, Multicultural Realities [2006]
386
22. The Multicultural Question [2000] 409
Index 435
Place of First Publication 453
Stuart Hall (1932–2014) was one of the most prominent and
influential scholars and public intellectuals of his generation.
Hall taught at the University of Birmingham and the Open
University, was the founding editor of New Left Review, and was the
author of Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History, Familiar
Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, and other books also
published by Duke University Press.
Paul Gilroy is Professor of the Humanities, Institute of Advanced
Studies at University College London.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth and Environmental
Sciences and of American Studies at the Graduate Center, City
University of New York.
“Stuart Hall was an unparalleled thinker whose work shaped an
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his ideas are gifts.”
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strict content-based grouping, the editors’ choice to flexibly
adhere to a temporal reading captures the breadth and depth of
Hall’s projects and interests during various periods of his
professional activity. Sacrificing (some) thematic rigidity is well
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to make."
*Cultural Studies*
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