In “Gramsci’s Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,” Stuart Hall provides an overview of the many concepts that Gramsci uses in his theoretical work, such as hegemony, social formation, and the idea of the organic intellectual, and shows how these theories can be inflected by the category of race. Hall reminds us of the relevance of articulation when he writes “ideologies are not transformed or changed by replacing one, whole, already-formed conception of the world with another, so much as by ‘renovating and making critical an already existing activity’” (320). I would like to discuss the limitations of (re)articulation: Are there any examples of theoretical frameworks that cannot or should not be rearticulated?
I am also interested in discussing the idea of decoupling ethnicity from state violence to produce new cultural practices. In “New Ethnicities,” Hall explains “We still have a great deal of work to do to decouple ethnicity, as it functions in the dominant discourse, from its equivalence with nationalism, imperialism, racism and the state, which are points of attachment around which a distinctive British, or, more accurately, English ethnicity have been constructed” (252). What are examples of a successful decoupling of ethnicity from nationalism, imperialism, etc. in contemporary pop culture? (we can also talk about the limitations of Lin Manuel-Miranda's Hamilton, if anyone is down.)
Also, below is the link to my digital story. I actually have two versions of the same story: one version is primarily told through open access video clips and then I started to get paranoid about it and created another video with just free images, haha. 😅 The link below is the original video, but the other version is under the same account. I've also provided recommended readings in the description if you're interested in learning more about premodern critical race studies and the Beowulf poem.
Wow... This story so well articulated and edited. It's very poetic.
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