Message in a bottle to the future! In this posthumously published book about the fateful triangle of race, ethnicity, and nation, the great sociologist and founder of Cultural Studies, Stuart Hall, traces how old hierarchies in our societies were dismantled and how oppressed minorities began to assert new forms of representation for cultural identity. From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, the term "race" served to depict social differences based on skin color as natural and unchangeable. However, the redefinitions enforced in the 20th century by the black civil rights movement and by migrants in Western societies demonstrate to Hall how identities and prejudices can be transformed through the medium of language. They provide hope that new perspectives continually emerge within the migrant diaspora.