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Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)

Jamaican-British Marxist sociologist and cultural theorist

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He was one of the founding figures of British Cultural Studies and the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.[1] Born on 3 February 1932 in Kingston, Jamaica, Stuart Henry McPhail Hall was a Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist who held Jamaican and British identities.[1][2] Hall was one of the founding editors of the New Left Review, which began publication in 1960 after the merger of Universities and Left Review and The New Reasoner.[3][4][5]

Life and work

Hall was born on 3 February 1932 in Kingston, Colony of Jamaica, into a middle-class family.[2] He won a Rhodes Scholarship to Merton College at Oxford in 1951, becoming part of the Windrush generation.[6][5] At Oxford, Hall abandoned a doctorate on Henry James in 1957 or 1958 to focus on political work.[7][8] Hall co-wrote The Popular Arts with Paddy Whannel in 1964, which led Richard Hoggart to invite him to the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.[9][5]

During 1957, Hall became a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; on a CND march he encountered Catherine Barrett, whom he married in 1964.[10][5][11] After serving as acting director from 1968, Hall assumed the directorship of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in 1972 and held that post until 1979.[3][5]

What the cited sources add

A Guardian obituary notes that Hall won accolades from universities worldwide despite never thinking of himself as a scholar.[5] An Independent obituary reports that Professor Henry Louis Gates called Hall "Black Britain's leading theorist of black Britain"[11] An Observer article states that Hall arrived in Britain from Jamaica on a Rhodes scholarship in 1950 with a Merton College scarf.[8] The same article reports that Hall became chair of Iniva and Autograph ABP, which sought to promote photographers from ethnic minorities.[8]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Procter 2004 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Halls of Jamaica – Allegonda's Legacy", David Alan Paterson, 2002 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Morley, "Stuart Hall Obituary", The Guardian, 10 February 2014; Schulman 1993 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Farred 1996, p. 30; "A Brief History Of New Left Review 1960–2010", New Left Review; Berlin, Mike, "Bishopsgate Institute Podcast: The Partisan Coffee House: Cultural Politics and the New Left" (11 June 2009). Bishopsgate Institute, 8 February 2; Derbyshire, "Stuart Hall: 'We Need to Talk About Englishness'", 23 August 2012; Lewis 2004 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Morley, "Stuart Hall Obituary", The Guardian, 10 February 2014. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  6. Wikipedia, "Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Levens 1964, p. 424; Phillips, "Stuart Hall", Winter 1997 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lavezzo 2019, p. 1; Lavezzo, "Whiteness, medievalism, immigration: rethinking Tolkien through Stuart Hall", Postmedieval, 1 December 2021, p. 31; Phillips, "Stuart Hall", Winter 1997; Farred 1996, p. 30 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Adams, "Cultural Hallmark", The Observer, 22 September 2007. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  9. Wikipedia, "Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Paterson, "Stuart Hall (1932–2014)", British Film Institute, 11 February 2014; Lewis 2004; "Stuart Hall (b. 1932)", Oxford Reference (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Williamson, "Professor Stuart Hall: Sociologist and pioneer in the field of cultural studies whose work explored the concept of Britishness", The Independent, 11 February 2011; Farred 1996, p. 30; Phillips, "Stuart Hall", Winter 1997 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Williamson, "Professor Stuart Hall: Sociologist and pioneer in the field of cultural studies whose work explored the concept of Britishness", The Independent, 11 February 2011. facts only, no text reused. independent.co.uk

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