Hall worked on race and immigration theory from the 1950s onward.

Evidence

Politely as ever, Stuart firmly demurs at this formulation, observing that although he understands why people might say this, “in fact, it’s not quite true, you know.” He goes on to point out not only that he was producing empirically based and policy-related work on race and immigration in Britain from the 1950s onward but that he was also addressing these matters in theoretical terms in essays from the late 1970s such as “Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance” (volume 1, chapter 6) and “Pluralism, Race and Class in Caribbean Society”—although some part of that work was circulated though the channels of UNESCO’s Division of Human Rights rather than being visible within the academic Cultural Studies. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 27

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the genealogy-of-ideas thread: institutional channels (UNESCO vs. academic Cultural Studies) shaped which work became canon, which is itself a point about knowledge production carried into later readings.