March 26th Discussion of Stuart Hall's Race as Floating Signifier

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BLIS and the Education Committee Continue Our Discussion Group with Stuart Hall's Seminal Essay “Race as Floating Signifier”

March 26th, 3-4:30 pm

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Looking to solidify your own understanding of race? Hope to sharpen your understanding Stuart Hall's essay “Race as Floating Signifier” is one of the most important and penetrating pieces ever written to help you explore how the concepts of race can be understood.

Stuart Hall (1932-2014) was one of the most influential intellectuals of the last half of the twentieth century. Born in Jamaica, and initially trained as a literature scholar at Oxford, he went on to found much of what is now called cultural studies. Joining the University of Birmingham, he was a leading figure in the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies along with such luminaries as Richard Hoggart. Hall also founded and edited the seminal theory journal New Left Review, and eventually became such a major figure within British sociology as to become President of the British Sociological Association.
Stuart Hall additionally helped incorporate significant ideas from French theory into Anglo-American socialist theory.

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