The impossibility of the black intellectual
Stuart Hall, the British-Jamaican cultural theorist, would have been open to and pragmatic about the ideas of the younger generations of anti-racists now in the making.
Stuart Hall, the British-Jamaican cultural theorist, would have been open to and pragmatic about the ideas of the younger generations of anti-racists now in the making.
Though Hall's work was written from the vantage point of the black immigrant experience in the UK, some of it resonated in South Africa.
Hall was a skilled storyteller, who placed his memory, his deep sense of alienation, and his autobiography at the heart of his theory and politics.
In gratitude to Stuart Hall, a socialist intellectual who taught us to confront the political with a smile.
The political scientist Adolph Reed Jnr on what political economy mean to cultural studies.