The Fateful Triangle
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The Fateful Triangle
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The Fateful Triangle
"Given the current political conditions, these lectures on race, ethnicity, and nation, delivered by Stuart Hall almost a quarter of a century ago, may be even more timely today."
- Angela Y. Davis
In this defining statement, one of the founding figures of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, often deadly consequences of our contemporary politics of race and identity. As he untangles the power relations that permeate categories of race, ethnicity, and nationhood, Stuart Hall shows how old hierarchies of human identity were forcefully broken apart when oppressed groups introduced new meanings to the representation of difference.
Hall challenges us to find more sustainable ways of living with difference, redefining nation, race, and identity.
"Stuart Hall bracingly confronts the persistence of raceβand its confounding liberal surrogates, ethnicity and nation. This is a profoundly humane work that finds room for hope and change."
- Orlando Patterson
"Stuart Hall's written words were ardent, discerning, recondite, and provocative; his spoken voice lyrical, euphonious, passionate, at times rhapsodic, and he changed the way an entire generation of critics and commentators debated issues of race and cultural difference."
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"Essential reading for those seeking to understand Hall's tremendous impact on scholars, artists, and filmmakers on both sides of the Atlantic."
- Artforum
Series: The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
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The Fateful Triangle by Stuart Hall is highly regarded for its insightful analysis of race, ethnicity, and identity. Critics praise Hall's impactful way of challenging readers to think about the complexities of cultural differences and hierarchies. His work is described as transformative, integrating African-American and Anglo-Caribbean cultural studies while urging a reconsideration of political and social categories. The bookβs lectures are seen as essential reading, providing both hope and intellectual depth in understanding race relations today.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780674248342
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 January 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Contributors:
- Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Edited by Kobena Mercer
- Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 111.0mm
Height: 181.0mm
Weight: 197g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Stuart Hall was an influential Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist. He was Professor of Sociology at the Open University, the founding editor of New Left Review, and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. Kobena Mercer is Professor of History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the author of numerous books and has written extensively on the history of race and anti-Black racism in the Enlightenment. His most recent works include Stony the Road and The Black Church. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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