In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul
Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by
Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking
engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and
diaspora. Spanning the whole of his career, this collection includes
classic theoretical essays such as “The Whites of Their Eyes”
(1981) and “Race, the Floating Signifier” (1997). It also
features public lectures, political articles, and popular pieces that
circulated in periodicals and newspapers, which demonstrate the
breadth and depth of Hall's contribution to public discourses of
race. Foregrounding how and why the analysis of race and difference
should be concrete and not merely descriptive, this collection gives
organizers and students of social theory ways to approach the
interconnections of race with culture and consciousness, state and
society, policing and freedom.
