Stuart Hall A Conversation :Race,Class,Culture & Gender

[Sir X]

https://vimeo.com/205226601


To the top ! HL you need this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart...tural_theorist)

[Sir X]

So, I’ve never written about the Caribbean, though much of what I’ve done
has been inflected by the Caribbean. I was never part of the project of writing
the national Jamaican or Caribbean story. What’s more, more to my regret,
I wasn’t part of the political events of the last 50 years that shaped Jamaican
independence. I know about them, I knew all the people involved, I went to
school with half of them, you know, I’ve come back every two or three years,
I’ve followed the story from the inside, but I have not been part of it, so
when asked if I wanted to think about being a Caribbean intellectual or coming
to Caribbean intellectual thought, well, this is an ambiguous thing.

What entered my mind was — these people have never really been interested
in your work, you know, they think it’s from over there, it’s from somewhere
else, you’re not part of us, and a certain resentment. Why didn’t you come
back? Why aren’t you part of us? And a certain — dare I — dare I call it provincialism?
What we’re preoccupied with is Jamaican things, because we’re affirming that
against the time when we couldn’t — we don’t have time to think about what
is happening in England, we’re too occupied. So while that national moment
— the moment of national independence — was supreme — governing people’s
lives, ambitions, taking up their energies, why should people be interested
in my work?



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[Sir X]

Stuart Hall wrote the textbook on representation and identity, how stereotypes are formed and how to dismantle them (see video above), his work is so highly cited (citation factor being the metric used in academia to measure scholarly worth) that on any given day a Google Scholar advanced search for his name returns approximately 54,000 results per 0.03 seconds to Rex Nettleford’s 2,000 (the highest of any locally based academic). For comparison Orlando Patterson, another Jamaican intellectual superstar located in the diaspora, returns 51,000 results; Frantz Fanon about 36,600 results and Derek Walcott a measly 12,900 results.

Patterson and Hall are in a category with other global intellectual giants such as Amartya Sen, Edward Said, Richard Rorty and Slavoj Zizek, the latter lower at 44,000 than either Patterson or Hall. While Patterson is known to Jamaicans Stuart Hall is so unheard of that the main newspaper here wrote an editorial after his death in February 2014 lamenting the lack of awareness in Jamaica of who this towering intellectual was.

https://anniepaul.net/2015/08/09/no-...brand-jamaica/

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Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page...ltural-studies