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British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist (1932–2014)

For other people called Stuart Hall, see Stuart Hall (disambiguation).

Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxistsociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist.

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Hall — along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams — was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.

In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influential journal New Left Review.

At Hoggart's invitation, he joined the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University of Birmingham in 1964. Hall took over from Hoggart as acting director of the CCCS in 1968, became its director in 1972, and remained there until 1979.^[3] While at the centre, Hall is credited with playing a role in expanding the scope of cultural studies to deal