While reading Stuart Hall's essay, "What is the 'Black' in Black popular culture," I found myself to be extremely lost. I couldn't seem to grasp on to what exactly Hall was trying to say. It seems as if he spent the first five pages of the essay introducing the topic of popular culture and its global significance. I believe he begins his dissection of 'What Is Black Popular Culture,' by discussing the 'moment' of black popular culture. He discusses the three general coordinates of this moment. Europes dominance in high culture and it's being the center of culture, the united states as a world power and center of cultural production and the decolonization of the third world. I really had no idea what he was talking about and I really look forward to discussing this essay further in class because I really couldn't make heads or tails of it. Towards the end it seems like Hall is making the case that black popular culture is a big part of global popular culture in. He also discusses how black people now often have other cultural backgrounds that can be just as important to them as black popular culture and how black popular culture is changing. He gives the example of a black man from england having cultural connections to their black roots that are just as strong as their british ones. Maybe he wasn't saying that though, honestly I was really confused by this essay and I am going to try and re-read it at least once more before we discuss it.