Early Left thinking subordinated race to the class-imperialism framework

Evidence

It’s not that I didn’t think about that, but I thought partly one is a subordinate element of the other—really this is a question about capitalism and imperialism and the poverty of Jamaica, the situation in which black men and women find themselves in urban deprivation and class politics are really a slightly differentiated part of one whole thing. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1105

Categorization

• XREF: Demonstrates the reductionist move later critical-race and postcolonial theory attacks — race as epiphenomenon of class under capitalism. — connects to: Said subordinated class and gender analysis to race in his later theorizing