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The Fateful Triangle - Race, Ethnicity, Nation (Hardcover)
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The Fateful Triangle - Race, Ethnicity, Nation (Hardcover)
Series: The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
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In The Fateful Triangle-drawn from lectures delivered at Harvard
University in 1994-one 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.
From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, 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 "badge of color" W. E. B. Du Bois evoked
in the anticolonial era, "black" became a sign of solidarity for
Caribbean and South Asian migrants who fought discrimination in
1980s Britain. Hall sees such manifestations of "new ethnicities"
as grounds for optimism in the face of worldwide fundamentalisms
that respond with fear to social change. Migration was at the heart
of Hall's diagnosis of the global predicaments taking shape around
him. Explaining more than two decades ago why migrants are the
target of new nationalisms, Hall's prescient vision helps us to
understand today's 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.
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