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Author:
Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014 author.
Title:
Familiar stranger : a life between two islands / Stuart Hall with Bill Schwarz.
Publisher:
Duke University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xvi, 301 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Hall, Stuart,--1932-2014.
Sociologists--Jamaica--Biography.
Sociologists--Great Britain--Biography.
Jamaicans--Great Britain--Biography.
Other Authors:
Schwarz, Bill, 1951- editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-283) and index.
Contents:
Jamaica -- Colonial landscapes, colonial subjects -- The two Jamaicas -- Thinking the Caribbean: Creolizing thinking -- Race and its disavowal -- Leaving Jamaica -- Conscripts of modernity -- Journey to an illusion -- Encountering Oxford: the makings of a diasporic self -- Caribbean migration: the windrush generation -- Transition zone -- England at home -- Politics.
Summary:
Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his own home. He lived among Kingston's stiflingly respectable brown middle class, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured themselves against the white elite. As colonial rule was challenged, things began to change in Kingston and across the world. In 1951 a Rhodes scholarship took Hall across the Atlantic to Oxford University, where he met young Jamaicans from all walks of life, as well as writers and thinkers from across the Caribbean, including V. S. Naipaul and George Lamming. While at Oxford he met Raymond Williams, Charles Taylor, and other leading intellectuals, with whom he helped found the intellectual and political movement known as the New Left. With the emotional aftershock of colonialism still pulsing through him, Hall faced a new struggle: that of building a home, a life, and an identity in a postwar England so rife with racism that it could barely recognize his humanity. With great insight, compassion, and wit, Hall tells the story of his early life, taking readers on a journey through the sights, smells, and streets of 1930s Kingston while reflecting on the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain.
Series:
Stuart hall : selected writings
Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014. Works. Selections. 2016.
ISBN:
0822363879 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780822363873 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)959875540
LCCN:
2017001890
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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