Identity is an endless ever unfinished conversation

"Identity is an endless ever unfinished conversation" (Stuart Hall)

... whatever is the actual color of my face, socially historically, culturally politically I made the identification with being black"

THE STUART HALL PROJECT 
Directed by John Akomfrah (2013)

THE CRISIS AND THE RACIAL LENS

A crisis of authority. 
"The enemy is within the gates. He is nameless. He's everywhere.
This is not a crisis of race but RACE ponctuates and periodizes the crisis. Race is the lens to which people come to perceive that a crisis is developing. It is a framework to which the crisis is experienced..."

STUART HALL ON DIASPORA IT IS NOT WHAT THE MEDIA SAY IT IS WHAT THE MEDIA DON’T SAY. (ON RACE IN TV) STUART HALL in 2006 >> "every diaspora has its regrets. Although you can never go back to the past. You do have a sense of loss. There is something you’ve lost the kind of intimate connection with landscape, family and tradition which you  lose. “My generation stayed at home and got deeply involved in writing the history of the nation and I wasn’t there. I was watching that from a far. I see now the limits of that. And I came to England and I couldn’t be a member of this one either… I’m not a part of the conception of the nation… So I’m cosmopolitan by default. I had to find my way amongst many attachments, many identification and I had to recognize how limited that is I’ve tried to maintain the openness of the horizon to that which I ‘m not. The experiences I’ve not had. Cos that’s really…if this is a global moment there’s so many experiences that we know nothing about. We can’t close it up around…. even our history. It is a horizon towards that point where our experience of history ends and another history begins. (I don’t want to make a fetish of otherness)"