Essential Essays Volume 2, Identity and Diaspora

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From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume set—brings together Stuart Hall's most influential and foundational works. Spanning the whole of his career, these volumes reflect the breadth and depth of his intellectual and political projects while demonstrating their continued vitality and importance. Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora draws from Hall's later essays, in which he investigated questions of colonialism, empire, and race. It opens with “Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,” which frames the volume and finds Hall rethinking received notions of racial essentialism. In addition to essays on multiculturalism and globalization, black popular culture, and Western modernity's racial underpinnings, Volume 2 contains three interviews with Hall, in which he reflects on his life to theorize his identity as a colonial and diasporic subject. Contents......Page 6 A Note on the Text......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 General Introduction......Page 12 Part I | Prologue: Class, Race, and Ethnicity......Page 28 One. Gramsci’s Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity [1986]......Page 32 Part II | Deconstructing Identities: The Politics of Anti-Essentialism......Page 66 Two. Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities [1991]......Page 74 Three. What Is This “Black” in Black Popular Culture? [1992]......Page 94 Four. The Multicultural Question [2000]......Page 106 Part III | The Postcolonial and the Diasporic......Page 146 Five. The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power [1992]......Page 152 Six. The Formation of a Diasporic Intellectual: An Interview with Stuart Hall by Kuan-Hsing Chen [1996]......Page 196 Seven. Thinking the Diaspora: Home-Thoughts from Abroad [1999]......Page 217 Part IV | Interviews and Reflections......Page 238 Eight. Politics, Contingency, Strategy: An Interview with David Scott [1997]......Page 246 Nine. At Home and Not at Home: Stuart Hall in Conversation with Les Back [2008]......Page 274 Part V | Epilogue: Caribbean and Other Perspectives......Page 312 Ten. Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life [2007]......Page 314 A......Page 336 B......Page 337 C......Page 338 D......Page 340 F......Page 341 H......Page 342 I......Page 343 L......Page 344 M......Page 345 N......Page 346 P......Page 347 R......Page 348 S......Page 349 U......Page 350 Y......Page 351 Place of First Publication......Page 352