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Black looks : race and representation / bell hooks.
Van Pelt Library E185.86 .H734 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- hooks, bell, 1952-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Social conditions--1975-.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- African Americans in popular culture.
- African American women.
- Sex role--United States.
- Sex role.
- United States.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- White people--Race identity--United States.
- White people.
- White people--Race identity.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 200 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2015.
- Summary:
- "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 readers who have engaged with the book since its original release in 1992 can attest, that's exactly what these pieces do"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface to the new edition
- loving blackness as political resistance
- eating the other : desire and resistance
- revolutionary black women : making ourselves subject
- selling hot pussy : representations of black female sexuality in the cultural marketplace
- a feminist challenge : must we call every woman sister?
- reconstructing black masculinity
- the oppositional gaze : black female spectators
- micheaux's films : celebrating blackness
- is paris burning?
- madonna : plantation mistress or soul sister?
- representations of whiteness in the black imagination
- revolutionary "renegades" : native americans, african americans, and black indians.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Boston, Massachusetts : South End Press, 1992.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200).
- ISBN:
- 9781138821545
- 1138821543
- 9781138821552
- 1138821551
- OCLC:
- 883836301
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