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Stuart Hall, sociologist and In the 1950s, Hall was a
critic, is perhaps the most leading light of the New Left;
canonized of the founding in the 1960s and 70s, he
fathers. Indeed, as one was at the Centre for
critic has noted, cultural Contemporary Cultural
studies has tended falsely Studies, Birmingham; in the
to unify itself around a small 1980s, he moved to the
number of highly Open University and led the
problematic articles by "New Times" debate at
Stuart Hall. He was born in Marxism Today.
Jamaica ("early 1930s") into
a middle class and
conservative family. In
1951, Hall won a
scholarship to Oxford - and
the rest, as they say, is
(cultural) history.

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