ISBN:
9781315743226
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 200 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als hooks, bell, 1952 - 2021 Black looks
DDC:
305.896073
Keywords:
African Americans Social conditions 1975-
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African Americans in popular culture
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African American women
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Sex role
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African Americans Race identity
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Whites Race identity
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Racism
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United States Race relations
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship-in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film-and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: ""the essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert."" As students, scholars, activists, intellectuals, and any other
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; preface to the new edition; introduction revolutionary attitude; 1. loving blackness as political resistance; 2. eating the other desire and resistance; 3. revolutionary black women making ourselves subject; 4. selling hot pussy representations of black female sexuality in the cultural marketplace; 5. a feminist challenge must we call every woman sister?; 6. reconstructing black masculinity; 7. the oppositional gaze black female spectators; 8. micheaux's films celebrating blackness; 9. is paris burning?
Description / Table of Contents:
10. madonna plantation mistress or soul sister?11. representations of whiteness in the black imagination; 12. revolutionary "renegades" native americans, african americans, and black indians; selected bibliography
DOI:
10.4324/9781315743226
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315743226
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315743226
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