Gramsci never addressed race, racism, or colonialism directly in his work.

Evidence

Gramsci did not write about race, ethnicity, or racism in their contemporary meanings or manifestations. Nor did he analyze in depth the colonial experience or imperialism, out of which so many of the characteristic “racist” experiences and relationships in the modern world have developed. His principal preoccupation was with his native Italy, and, behind that, the problems of socialist construction in western and eastern Europe, the failure of revolutions to occur in the developed capitalist societies of “the West,” the threat posed by the rise of fascism in the interwar period, and the role of the party in the construction of hegemony. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 84

Categorization

• XREF: Establishes the precise limitations of the Gramscian toolkit that postcolonial and Islamophobia readings must work around — connects to the field’s reliance on Gramsci despite his silence on race.