40 Quotes by Stuart Hall

I have never worked on race and ethnicity as a kind of subcategory; I have always worked on the whole social formation which is racialised.

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

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

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.

The NHS is one of the most humanitarian acts that has ever been undertaken in peace time.

The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.

The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological, sexual questions.

Politicians always think they know what people feel. It's a fallacy, because there is no such thing as 'the people.' It is a discursive device for summoning the people that you want. You're constructing the people, you're not reflecting the people.

Identity is becoming more dependent on what people are willing subscribe to and less dependent on objective criteria such as skin colour or where they're born. Ways of identifying blackness are no longer black or white. It's not a case of us or them, you can now be us and them; like them but different.