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Race, the Floating Signifier: Stuart Hall
VHS
60 minutes
CB195 .R2321 1996
In Race, the Floating Signifier Hall goes beyond the vast body of knowledge available on the effects of racism to help us understand the deeper questions about how race is represented. Hall shows that the meaning of racial signifiers (like skin color) are never fixed, but depend upon cultural context, and are discursive constructs, or "floating signifiers."
Stuart Hall is a seminal figure in the development of media and cultural studies in Britain and his influence is ever more apparent across the globe. First as Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, and currently as Professor of Sociology at The Open University, he has helped to create environments for collaborative intellectual work that have forged new directions in cultural theory and cultural politics.
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