BLACK IN WHITE: STUART HALL AND THE WHITENESS

Abstract

 This paper seeks to explain how the work of Stuart Hall, although the focus on black diasporic identities, is useful for studies of whiteness, beyond the possibility of an inversion, by which the white background is defined by the black figure. Seeks to understand the Hall’s methods, which passes through a particular concept of theoretical work, the interlocution of nonacademic social actors, the interest in history or genealogy and the search for intervention in political processes through intellectual work. In these terms, and in the context of increased academic interest in whiteness and the dissemination, in public space, of words of command around the racism, retakes Hall to analyze the situation.