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Title: killing rage : Ending Racism by bell hooks ISBN: 0-8050-5027-2 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.61 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A marvelous literary work that gets to the heart of racism
Comment: As a student of sociology and contemporary critical literature, I find this book to be of indescribable significance. As White Americans, what we often miss is that the issues of race and class inequality are just as present today as they were before the Civil-Rights movements. What this movement did is bring these problems to the attention of mainstream, White America-yet it did not solve it in any way. In these essays, Bell Hooks does an especially nice job of making it apparent that all White America has done about the issues of race and class is "slip it under the rug." Some readers have found her writings to be evidence of ranting and raving or the victimization of Black Americans. It has been said that she hates Whites. Yet these comments are evidence that White America desperately needs to face its prejudiced views-and Bell Hooks shows provides us with a wonderful opportunity to do so. A must read!
Rating: 5
Summary: A passionate call for "race talk" and Black consciousness
Comment: I'm sort of a bell hooks fan. I've always liked her keen intelligence, lucid writing, and her ability to name oppressive forces that impact us all.
Many people will not like hooks because she doesn't write from an activist experience. She's primarily a cultural critic, providing insight and analysis rather than strategy and tactics. Her lack of political activism is indeed problematic, but as an activist teacher, I turn to hooks for inspiration and vision for how to engage my students and other folks in the educational community in visions of radical change.
In "Killing Rage," hooks comes on very strong in naming racism as a White, patriarcial, capitalist enterprise. In providing this analysis, hooks is examining instutions of both covert and institutionalized racism, the latter of which is harder to name and explain.
In this work, bell argues that the ending of racism must come through a "collecitve black rage." which means that "Progressive black activists must show how we take that rage and move it beyond fruitless scapegoating of any group, linking it instead to a passion for freedom and justice that illuminates, heals, and makes redemptive struggle possible." In other words, bell is spreaking of what took place in the Black power movement in which collective black rage rose up against racist aparthied in America. But she's not advocating that we build on the Black Power struggles of the sixities. Collective Black rage must include solidarity with Black feminist struggle and solidarity with class struggle along all racial lines.
While hooks does not seek to exclude White allies in the struggle to end racism, "Killing Rage" seems largely targeted to African people. She's calling for African people redefine Black identity, "one that is not sexist, homophobic, patriarchal, or supportive of capitalism."
Lastly, I want to point out how hooks argues that this struggle to end racism must be tied an edcuational agenda. She writes: "Until all black people address the educational crisis in black life, we cannot hope to attain collective self-detremination. As long as progressive radical black folks ignore secondary edcuation and fail to take the initiative to call for and demand progressive anti-racist, anti-sexist education for black children, and all children, our communities will be deluged by folks who see bourgeois partirarchal pedagogy as the only hope." For me, this says it all. I strongly encourage freedom-loving people to read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Profound Denouncement of White Supremacy and Patriarchy
Comment: Have you ever had the experience of feeling something deep down inside, passionate policy positions (about racism, sexism, classism, etc.), fervently knowing all the time that you are not only right but also profoundly aware, and yet, because your positions are unpopular and/or because you cannot cite authority for your position, you cannot fully express your thoughts, and hence, when called upon to proffer and defend your position, you can rely only upon your passions -- never enough for the logician engaging you in discussion and debate?
Well, I have. I live in this constant state when I challenge racism and sexism (most especially sexism). But I just finished the most empowering book I have read in a long time -- Killing Rage by bell hooks -- which coalesces my thoughts on both racism and sexism, passionately denouncing one while not betraying the denouncement of the other. All that I've been saying for so long, all that I've felt, I knew I was right. But it's often lonely thinking outside the box, and I could never quite reconcile my thoughts with my daily training in white supremacist patriarchy. Now, I don't have to, and it's a wonderful feeling. I strongly recommend this book to any woman who disavows both racism and sexism, and yet who often searches for the words to condemn both simultaneously.
A must read for the vigilant soul. Sure, few white people can accept such a politically incorrect denouncement of racism. Few men can accept such truth that dethrones them from their perceived superiority over women.
This is not Kumbaya-Let's-all-hold-hands-and-forget-racism. This is not Be-Submissive-to-your-man-and-sexism-goes-away. This is not typical, conventional, or superficial... only the deep mind can handle this work.
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Title: Race Matters by Cornel West ISBN: 0679749861 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Black Looks: Race and Representation by Bell Hooks ISBN: 0896084337 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by Bell Hooks ISBN: 0415968186 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Where We Stand: Class Matters by Bell Hooks ISBN: 041592913X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by Bell Hooks ISBN: 0415908116 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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