Cultural Studies began as New Left politics sheltered inside the university

Evidence

The beginning of Cultural Studies feels to us like the New Left politics in another place. We couldn’t keep the New Left going, but exactly the kinds of questions—is the culture changing, what is happening to working-class culture, what is the nature of affluent capitalism—these are the questions which we posed in cultural terms. And that’s the agenda for Cultural Studies. So Cultural Studies feels like an opportunity to come inside under the shelter of the university and be paid to do some of this work and to take some students and subvert them into this line. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 973

Categorization

• XREF: Frames Cultural Studies as a political project carried into academia, which connects to how critical theory fields like postcolonial and Islamophobia studies inherit political genealogies. — connects to: Ex-colonial intellectuals shaped the New Left and Cultural Studies from its origins; Institutionalization of Cultural Studies threatened to depoliticize it.; The New Left expanded rather than collapsed the definition of culture and politics
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 973

Broader Connections

• Institutionalization of Cultural Studies threatened to depoliticize it. #expands (0.85)
• The New Left expanded rather than collapsed the definition of culture and politics #corroborates (0.78)
• Ex-colonial intellectuals shaped the New Left and Cultural Studies from its origins #expands (0.75)