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Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

- Stuart Hall
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The DuBois Institute in the heart of Harvard is an extremely important political intervention and I'm delighted to be invited to speak here.

If I have to read another cultural studies analysis of 'The Sopranos,' I give up. There's an awful lot of rubbish around masquerading as cultural studies.

I would say that New Labour come closer to institutionalising neoliberalism as a social and political form than Thatcher did.

I have a funny relationship to the British working class movement... I'm in it, but not culturally of it... I was aware that I'd come from the periphery of this process. I was reluctant to go canvassing for the Labour party. I don't find it easy to say, straight, face to face with an English working class family: 'Are you going to vote for us?'

Popular culture is one of the sites where this struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged: it is also the stake to be won or lost in that struggle. It is the arena of consent and resistance.

Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted.

My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy than many other people did. So I didn't feel like an ordinary black Jamaican boy.

While every effort is being undertaken to make the memory of the Thatcher government disappear, Thatcherism is still working its way through the system.

I'm the blackest member of my family. You know, these mixed families produce children of all colors, and in Jamaica, the question of exactly what shade you were, in colonial Jamaica, that was the most important question. Because you could read off class and education and status from that. I was aware and conscious of that from the very beginning.

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Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.