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Landmark
Stuart Hall
1932 – 2014
One of the founders of cultural studies
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Why they are here
A Kingston-born thinker who went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and helped invent cultural studies as an academic field.
Hall was a founding editor of the New Left Review and led the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. His writing on race, identity, the media and the politics of the 1980s shaped how a generation understood culture and diaspora.
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