The country's image of the Negro, which hasn't very much to do with the Negro, has never failed to reflect with a kind of terrifying accuracy the state of mind of the country.

--James Baldwin

Problems of Ideology

Problems of Resistance

The people have always had to make something out of the things that the system is trying to make them into.

-- Stuart Hall


Possible books for review: Hall et al. Policing the Crisis; Hall & Jefferson, Resistance Through Rituals; Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style.