I have centred my remarks on an attempt to identify and characterize a significant shift that
has been going on (and is still going on) in black cultural politics. This shift is not definitive, in …

… point in Hall’s research, towards structuralism and provides insight into some of the main
theoretical developments Hall was … Hall’s essay challenged all three components of the mass …

My title, ‘Cultural studies and its theoretical legacies’, suggests a look back to the past, to
consult and think about the Now and the Future of cultural studies by way of a retrospective …

The aim of this collection of essays1 is to facilitate ‘a more sophisticated examination of the
hitherto poorly elucidated phenomen of racism and to examine the adequacy of the …

I begin with a question: What sort of moment is this in which to pose the question of black
popular culture? These moments are always conjunctural. They have their historical specificity; …

<p>This essay attempts to assess Althusser's contribution to the reconceptualization of
ideology. Rather than offering a detailed exegesis, the essay provides some general reflections …

How new are these ‘New Times’? Are they the dawn of a New Age or only the whisper of an
old one? What is ‘new’ about them? How do we assess their contradictory tendencies-are …

… Stuart Hall firstly outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet
so problematic. The cast of outstanding contributors then interrogate different dimensions of …

How do we represent people and places which are significantly different from us? W hy is ‘difference’so
compelling a theme, so contested an area of representation? W hat is the secret …

… Specifically, Hall examines how a discourse of “the West” established itself in a seemingly
natural differentiation against “the other”(for example, Said’s “the Orient”). Hall underlines the …