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.