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GATE 2025 XH2 (English) – Question 38

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Interdisciplinary Fields: Cultural studies, film and media studies, memory and trauma studies, Dalit and subaltern studies, environmental, medical and digital humanities · 1 mark · Multiple select

Who among the following is/are NOT connected with the ‘race turn’ in the USA?

  1. W. E. B. Du Bois
  2. Stuart Hall
  3. Frederic Jameson
  4. Alain Locke

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Correct answer: (B) Stuart Hall; (C) Frederic Jameson

Explanation

Du Bois and Locke (the Harlem Renaissance) are central to the American race turn. Stuart Hall is a British cultural theorist and Jameson a Marxist critic of postmodernism.