Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier

Alternative title: Race: The Floating Signifier
Synopsis: Stuart Hall offers an accessible and clarifying analysis of the social construction of race and racial difference. He explores how variations in people’s appearances come to be mistaken for essential differences. He traces how these misinterpretations function both to express and to reproduce dominant power relations. And he argues for more rigorous engagements with identity, representation, and contingency capable of acknowledging and respecting difference without essentialising it. An ideal introduction to how cultural studies intervenes in debates about race, representation, identity, and power.
Language: English
Country: United States
Year of release: 1997
Subjects: Philosophy; Sociology
Keywords: cultural theory; identity; race relations; racial identity; semiotics; racism

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