Diane Austin-Broos

Stuart Hall and Jamaica

ABSTRACT Though Stuart Hall left Jamaica as a young man in 1951, reflections on his birthplace and its people’s diaspora significantly shaped the method that would become a cultural studies. This essay examines the nature of this influence as evidenced in some of Hall’s early and much later writing.

Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Clas by Carla Freeman (review)

Stephen presents some critics of the movement, although APPO supporters receive the bulk of coverage. Most average Oaxacans I have spoken with are more circumspect about the effects of the movement, and some are quite critical of it, but hers is an avowedly pro-APPO publication. At times a utopian streak emerges, as in the discussion of “a new political culture among youth unified around the concept of autonomy.” Do new political cultures emerge overnight? For that matter, are “horizontal” and “consensus” movements like the APPO, the Zapatistas, and Occupy really the wave of the future? They may be, but perhaps we should temper utopian desires with some cold realism. But that is a topic for future historians and anthropologists.