Stuart Hall and ‘Race’

Alexander, Claire

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“…Indeed, while in such widely read and cited essays as "New Ethnicities" (1988) and "Cultural Identity and Diaspora" (1990), Hall addressed issues of diaspora directly, they could nonetheless also be found scattered and dispersed throughout his earlier works on the sociology of immigration, and in particular, "The Young Englanders" (1967) and "Black Britons" (1970). While these essays may now appear largely nation-centric, since they pinpoint a political breach between "formal acceptance and informal segregation" in British race relations, they were nonetheless framed against a broader critical examination of the historical conjunctures of immigration and colonialism (Alexander, 2009).…”

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Stuart Hall on racism and the importance of diasporic thinking

Rizvi

2015

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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In this article, I want to show how my initial encounter with the work of Stuart Hall was grounded in my reading of the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and was shaped by my interest in understanding the nature of racism across the three countries in which I had lived. Over the years, Hall's various writings have helped me to make sense of the shifting logics of racism, especially his insistence that racism cannot be understood in its own terms, but requires a conjunctural analysis of the contested processes of historical and political formation. I argue moreover that Hall does not so much as write about racism in or from diaspora, but rather he thinks diasporically, a notion that has significant implications for public pedagogy.I first encountered the work of Stuart Hall in 1981 through a short article that Hall had written a few years earlier on the politics of racism and reaction in Britain. I had been thinking tentatively about issues of race and racism for a number of years, though never in any sustained and systematic way. Born in India, I was conscious of the diverse and complex ways in which minorities were subjected to racism while negotiating their lives and, also in Australia, a country to which my family had immigrated while I was still a teenager. However, it was as a graduate student in England that I first confronted racism in its more explicit forms, forcing me to think more seriously about its various configurations, its origins, and its social consequences. I read widely on the then popular theories of racism, most of which seemed located within the empiricist traditions of social psychology. These theories viewed racism as an expression of prejudice that some individuals harbored toward those they regarded as culturally different and inferior. While there were clearly many elements of truth in these theories, I found them inadequate, incapable of accounting for the complexities of racial formation and racism that I had experienced and which were clearly evident in British society.Stuart Hall's article (1978) therefore 'spoke' to me instantly and in a manner that was most profound at so many different levels. To begin with, in Stuart Hall, I found a theorist who wrote about some of the most difficult issues of race and racism in a manner that was not only astute, but also accessible. In the tradition of Raymond Williams (1958), he focused on the ordinariness of cultural practices, and the ways in which they were shaped by the complex configurations of social, political, and economic formation, constantly contested and evolving. He used language in ways that were driven by pedagogic and political motivations -not to impress the Oxford Senior Common Room, but to provide *

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Stuart Hall on racism and the importance of diasporic thinking

Rizvi

2015

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“…It is a tool to make sense of specific moments, to place them in context analytically by understanding the ways in which cultures, ideologies, structures are drawn on, involved and combined in the concrete. Hall (cited in Alexander, 2009: 462) stated it in this form:I do think you have to analyse the things that are in front of you and try to understand how they really are and not how you would like them to be. And then try to find out what the possibilities are for change and work with those.…”

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“…Intervention is a key word in this. In the introduction to Policing the Cri sis the authors declare it to be an intervention in the battleground of ideas, and David Scott saw it as one of Hall’s key contributions in commenting that Hall is ‘less the author of books than the author of interventions ’ (cited in Alexander, 2009: 459, emphasis in original). In mapping or understanding the context of race and policing in and since the 1970s Hall was intervening in a politically charged arena in academia and beyond, as is evident in Gilroy (1987), for example.…”

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Stuart Hall as a criminological theorist-activist

Murji

2020

Theoretical Criminology

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What is the legacy of Stuart Hall for criminology, beyond just Policing the Crisis? In this article I highlight two other engagements by Hall in race and policing one in the 1980s through an independent inquiry, the other in the 1990s through a major public inquiry. Beyond bringing this work to light, this article shows how these engagements reveal Hall’s unique style of theorizing the concrete politics of the present through his stress upon conjunctures and context, and via the concept of articulation. Hall’s interventions in these two cases underscore an analytical and theoretical stance in public forums that made him more than a ‘scholar-activist’ but rather a ‘theorist-activist’ who drew on theory for strategic and ‘applied’ purposes. The ways in which he did this can, I suggest, point to different ways of ‘doing race’ in a critical criminology.

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“…Hall's engagement with ‘race’ offers a model for how we, as urbanists, might approach our own concepts ( cf . Alexander, ). Before proceeding to develop this point with reference to urban transformations in the Colombian port‐city of Buenaventura, two qualifications are in order.…”

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Beyond the Enclave of Urban Theory

Zeiderman

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This essay offers a methodological intervention into conceptual debates in urban studies. Despite significant analytical and political differences across an otherwise heterodox field of inquiry, these debates have been overly confined to a theoretical register. In this essay, I propose an alternative, inspired by Stuart Hall, which focuses on the concrete work accomplished by our key concepts in specific historical conjunctures. I make this argument with reference to my own research in Colombia, focusing specifically on racialized violence and displacement in the port‐city of Buenaventura. I argue that Hall's method, particularly his work on ‘race’, offers a way to engage questions of global urbanism without necessarily treating them as theoretical questions. Like ‘race’ in Hall's analysis, concepts like the ‘urban’ and the ‘global’ are ‘articulating principles’ of social formations, producing both discursive and material effects, and possessing social, cultural and political lives of their own. Alongside efforts to democratize the privilege of thinking and speaking in the language of ‘theory’, Hall's method exposes that privilege to more fundamental questioning.

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Stuart Hall and ‘Race’

Cited by 46 publications

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Stuart Hall on racism and the importance of diasporic thinking

Stuart Hall on racism and the importance of diasporic thinking

Stuart Hall as a criminological theorist-activist

Beyond the Enclave of Urban Theory

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