Leslie G. Roman is Professor of Educational Studies, Killam Fellow, and Affiliate of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She is author and co-editor of Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture (Falmer Press, 1988), Views Beyond the 'Border Country: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 1992), and Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education (Routledge, 1997). Her book, Contested Knowledge will appear shortly with Rowman & Littlefield.

Rethinking Stuart Hall neither strictly as a Cultural Studies scholar nor as a sociologist, this book instead understands him as an extraordinary educator of publics and counter-publics. A 'gold standard' for public intellectual work, Hall's pedagogical and political legacy is our inheritance. Taking stock of Hall's contributions to cultural politics and public pedagogies, the contributions probe his keywords for querying, contesting, and shifting the educational landscape and lexicon of culture - previously wed to hegemonic essentialist notions of race, nation, gender, and sexuality. This book was published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Preface Introduction - 'Keywords': Stuart Hall, an extraordinary educator, cultural politics and public pedagogies Part I: Conjunctural thinking 1. Understanding and interrupting hegemonic projects in education: learning from Stuart Hall 2. Conjunctural thinking - 'pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will': Lawrence Grossberg remembers Stuart Hall 3. Making and moving publics: Stuart Hall's projects, maximal selves and education Part II: Diasporic thinking 4. 'Nostalgia for what cannot be': an interpretive and social biography of Stuart Hall's early years in Jamaica and England, 1932-1959 5. Diasporic reasoning, affect, memory and cultural politics: An interview with Avtar Brah 6. Stuart Hall on racism and the importance of diasporic thinking Part III: Articulation in theory and practice 7. Stuart Hall and the theory and practice of articulation 8. The contribution of Stuart Hall to analyzing educational policy and reform