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All research libraries should acquire Stuart Hall's Selected Writings on Race and Difference. Editors Gilroy (Univ. College London, UK) and Gilmore (Graduate Center, CUNY) have done a great service in bringing together Hall's works on representation in the media, the intellectual life and verve of activism, and the racialized dynamics of cultural productions. This collection of Hall's essays and speeches, some familiar and some lesser known, reveals a long career of engagement with race and racism. By identifying the constitutive nature of racism, that is, the centrality of race to lived experience, Hall, with much intellectual curiosity and critical insight, engages with Black politics in Britain in ways that articulate steps toward justice applicable on an international stage. Hall's work remains timely, and Selected Writings provides much-needed tools for intervening in the present moment. This collection should be of great interest to those working in cultural studies, media studies, philosophy, political theory, rhetoric, and social theory as well anyone with a commitment to learning more about the effects of racialization and racism.Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.