Ideology, Racism, Intersectionality: An Invitation to Read Stuart Hall

This essay provides an introduction to the work of Stuart Hall, including a text of his, hitherto unpublished in French, that may be found below. The work of the leading thinker in the field of Cultural Studies is focused on popular cultures, Margaret Thatcher's authoritarian populism, and the analysis of racism, ethnic identities, and post-colonialism. The text of Hall's published here bears on the third of these three preoccupations. It sketches a theory of ideology and also of racism and puts forward an intersectional analysis of domination. Our introduction sets out to bring Hall's analyses into relation with questions of interest to the human and social sciences today, while showing how Hall's work makes it possible to resolve a number of problems central to the French debate about ideology, racism, and intersectionality. Adapted from the source document.