![]() After a short while I headed for Oxford University, into the very cultural heartland of England.īut this was an encounter which has not yet come to an end. My arrival preceded by some three months the general election in October in which the Conservatives ousted Labour and Winston Churchill regained the office of Prime Minister. Far from being an untroubled, innocent opportunity for me to step out into something new, this was an encounter which was mightily overdetermined. ![]() I was indeed elsewhere! I can say, however, that the colonial experience prepared me for England. It is uncannily disconcerting to look back at my younger self, arriving in the port of Avonmouth in 1951, ready for a new life but absolutely unsure how it would happen, or what it would look like if it did. ![]() Enjoy the excerpt and then buy the book for 30% off with coupon E17FAMST. Hall had earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University and the two traveled there together in 1951. In this excerpt from Stuart Hall’s new memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands, he describes his trip with his mother, Jessie, from Jamaica to the United Kingdom. ![]()
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