Selected Writings on Race and Difference

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.

In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora. Spanning the whole of his career, this collection includes classic theoretical essays such as "The Whites of Their Eyes" (1981) and "Race, the Floating Signifier" (1997). It also features public lectures, political articles, and popular pieces that circulated in periodicals and newspapers, which demonstrate the breadth and depth of Hall's contribution to public discourses of race. Foregrounding how and why the analysis of race and difference should be concrete and not merely descriptive, this collection gives organizers and students of social theory ways to approach the interconnections of race with culture and consciousness, state and society, policing and freedom.

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