For displaced colonial intellectuals, the Left functioned as a substitute home

Evidence

SH: Well, I also became a socialist and part of the Left at Oxford. Universities and Left Review was started in Oxford in response to 1956. So if you’re out of place, the Left becomes a kind of home. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1105

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader reading purpose: how colonial/racialized subjectivity finds belonging — relevant to later Islamophobia work on how marginalized groups seek community. — connects to: Many colonial-period intellectuals stood outside the Western tradition. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 862