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The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Harvard University Press<\/a>
\nSeptember 2017
\n256 pages
\n4-3\/8 x 7-1\/8 inches
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780674976528<\/p>\n

Stuart Hall<\/strong><\/a> (1932\u20132014), Professor of Sociology
\nOpen University<\/em><\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

Kobena Mercer<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of History of Art and African American Studies
\nYale University<\/em><\/p>\n

Foreword by:<\/p>\n

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.<\/strong><\/a>, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor; Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
\nHarvard University<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

In The Fateful Triangle<\/em>\u2014drawn from lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1994\u2014one of the founding figures of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, often deadly consequences of our contemporary politics of identification. As he untangles the power relations that permeate categories of race, ethnicity, and nationhood, Stuart Hall shows how old hierarchies of human identity in Western culture were forcefully broken apart when oppressed groups introduced new meanings to the representation of difference.<\/p>\n

From the Renaissance<\/a> to the Enlightenment<\/a>, the concept of race stressed distinctions of color as fixed and unchangeable. But for Hall, twentieth-century redefinitions of blackness reveal how identities and attitudes can be transformed through the medium of language itself. Like the \u201cbadge of color\u201d W. E. B. Du Bois<\/a> evoked in the anticolonial era, \u201cblack\u201d became a sign of solidarity for Caribbean and South Asian migrants who fought discrimination in 1980s Britain<\/a>. Hall sees such manifestations of \u201cnew ethnicities\u201d as grounds for optimism in the face of worldwide fundamentalisms that respond with fear to social change.<\/p>\n

Migration was at the heart of Hall\u2019s diagnosis of the global predicaments taking shape around him. Explaining more than two decades ago why migrants are the target of new nationalisms, Hall\u2019s prescient vision helps us to understand today\u2019s crisis of liberal democracy. As he challenges us to find sustainable ways of living with difference, Hall gives us the concept of diaspora as a metaphor with which to enact fresh possibilities for redefining nation, race, and identity in the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n

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