Dark Continent: STUART HALL: RACE & NEW IDENTITIES

Saturday, January 08, 2011

STUART HALL: RACE & NEW IDENTITIES

This semester (Spring 2011), I'm teaching a new graduate seminar on Stuart Hall and people he has influenced. I'd love some feedback on my reading list. Any advice? Thoughts? Additions? Subtractions?

Dworkin, Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain
Hall et. al., Policing the Crisis
Chen and Morley, Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies
Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood
Stephens, Black Empire
Gilroy, Against Race

We'll also read essays by Hall, Tavia Nyong'o, Kobena Mercer, Isaac Julien, Angela McRobbie, and a few others. I'm particularly interested in critiques of Hall and cultural studies. Any suggestions?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: I like this list. I'm wondering about other writers who are parallel, albeit in other fields. Some Homi Bhabha, for instance, and Kwame Appiah on cosmopolitanism. Also, maybe some U.S.-focused work on hip-hop, fashion, and popular literature? Although I can also envision those as possible class projects.

It might be interesting to think of how Afrocentric scholarship responds to and, perhaps, even critiques Hall, implicitly, if not explicitly--the very tangled questions of roots and routes and genealogies of race (Skip Gates's recent project, for instance).

Sounds like a great class. Would love to read more about it as it proceeds, if you have time to update.

Keguro; 9/1/11 8:36 AM
flow9 said...: This site offers a series of wonderful interviews with Stuart Hall: http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2010/11/28/stuart-hall-in-conversation-with-les-back-audio/

also their are a few Cultural Readers of his essays or other commentaries on his work.

On a recent trip to London, I visited the Rivington Gallery which houses a library in honor of Stuart Hall. If you dig through this site theirs also more interviews and weekly reading groups discussing his work.
http://www.rivingtonplace.org/Stuart-Hall-Library; 11/1/11 10:38 AM
flow9 said...: This site offers a series of wonderful interviews with Stuart Hall: http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2010/11/28/stuart-hall-in-conversation-with-les-back-audio/

also their are a few Cultural Readers of his essays or other commentaries on his work.

On a recent trip to London, I visited the Rivington Gallery which houses a library in honor of Stuart Hall. If you dig through this site theirs also more interviews and weekly reading groups discussing his work.
http://www.rivingtonplace.org/Stuart-Hall-Library; 11/1/11 10:39 AM

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Professor White's first book, Sierra Leone’s Settler Women Traders: Women on the Afro-European Frontier, was winner of the Letitia Brown Memorial Publication Price in 1987. Her book with Iris Berger, Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Restoring Women to History, has become a standard reference text and has been translated into Japanese. Her most recent book is Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability. She has been named a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Sierra Leone and a Mellon Scholar and has received a Kidder-Peabody Grant for research in The Gambia. Her appointments have included chair of the Five College Black Studies Executive Committee and member of the Graduate Faculty of the University of Massachusetts. She has a B.A. from Wheaton College, an M.A. in African history, and a Ph.D. in history from Boston University.

Along with her teaching and scholarly career, she has had a distinguished career in academic administration. At NYU, she was appointed Vice Provost in 2005. She advised the Provost on faculty appointments, tenure, and promotion. She worked closely with the Faculty Senators Council to enhance work-life conditions for faculty. She also spearheaded the university’s efforts to diversify the faculty and has responsibility for the Office of Academic Appointments, the Center for Teaching Excellence, and the Faculty Resource Network, a faculty development consortium of 52 institutions of higher education.

From 1998 to 2005, Professor White was dean of NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she greatly increased the school’s visibility and reputation. From 2001-05, she was chair of NYU’s Deans Council. Prior to coming to NYU, she was a professor of history and Black studies at Hampshire College, where she also served as Dean of the School of Social Science and Dean of Faculty. While completing her Ph.D. at Boston University, she was an instructor at the University of Sierra Leone and a research assistant at the Afro-American Studies Center at Boston University.