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Week 5

 What are the differences between Gramsci’s concept of the “organic intellectual” and Hall’s “public pedagogy?”  


On the topic of the diasporic intellectual, Kuan-Hsing Chen mentions that “Some of the

diasporic intellectuals I know of have exercised their power, for better or

worse, back home, but you have not. And some of them are trying to move

back, in whatever way. So, in that sense, you are very peculiar” (503). Although Hall felt some reconnection with the Carribean through the Black diasporic population in Britain, he insists that cultural identity is not fixed but “comes out of very specific historical formations, out of very specific histories and cultural repertoires of enunciation, that it can constitute a ‘positionality’, which we call, provisionally, identity” (503). Individuals can negotiate, rearticulate, recontextualize their different identities, but how does this rearticulation work at an institutional-level?  


Thelma

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