Familiar stranger : a life between two islands

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Label

Familiar stranger : a life between two islands

Title remainder

a life between two islands

Statement of responsibility

Stuart Hall with Bill Schwarz

Creator

• Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014,

Contributor

• Schwarz, Bill, 1951-

Author

• Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014,

Editor

• Schwarz, Bill, 1951-

Subject

• Great Britain
• Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014
• Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014
• Jamaica
• Jamaicans
• Jamaicans -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Sociologists
• Sociologists -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Sociologists -- Jamaica -- Biography
• Biographies
• Biography

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

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

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• Works., Selections

Cataloging source

NcD/DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Stuart hall : selected writings