Stuart Hall
The Fateful Triangle: Race, ethnicity, nation
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017

We begin, not with architecture, or design, or space. We begin with language.
Literary critic, historian and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes:

‘Briefly stated, Hall said that his aim in his Du Bois Lectures, delivered at the end of the twentieth century, was to update Du Bois’s bold warning from the beginning of that century: “to see the question of ethnicity – alongside and in an uneasy and unresolved relationship to race, on the one hand, and to nation, on the other – as posing a key problem that radically unsettles all three terms. Posing the question in this way presents us with what I see as the problem of the twenty-first century – the problem of living with difference – in a manner that is not only analogous to the ‘color line’ that [Du Bois] pointed to more than a hundred years ago but also a historically specific transformation of it”.’
— ‘Foreword’ to the 2017 Harvard University press edition of The Fateful Triangle, xxi.

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