The Fateful Triangle - Race, Ethnicity, Nation

In this work drawn from lectures delivered in 1994 a founding figure of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, deadly consequences of our politics of identification. Stuart Hall untangles the power relations that permeate race, ethnicity, and nationhood and shows how oppressed groups broke apart old hierarchies of difference in Western culture.

About the author

Stuart Hall was an influential Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist. He was Professor of Sociology at the Open University, the founding editor of New Left Review, and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.Kobena Mercer is Professor of History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University.Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the author of numerous books and has written extensively on the history of race and anti-Black racism in the Enlightenment. His most recent works include Stony the Road and The Black Church. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Summary

In this work drawn from lectures delivered in 1994 a founding figure of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, deadly consequences of our politics of identification. Stuart Hall untangles the power relations that permeate race, ethnicity, and nationhood and shows how oppressed groups broke apart old hierarchies of difference in Western culture.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Louis Gates, Stuart Hall, Kobena Mercer
• Assisted by: Kobena Mercer (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Foreword)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780674976528
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97652-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 117 mm x 188 mm x 23 mm
• Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures; The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures; The W.E Du Bois Lectures (HUP); The W.E Du Bois Lectures
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy