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Title: Black Looks: Race and Representation by Bell Hooks ISBN: 0-89608-433-7 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: May, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: fabulous first full encounter with bell hooks
Comment: Until now I have only read excerpts from bell hooks' works. Then I recently saw a C-Span program in which bell hooks led a discussion with a college audience. Reminded of the intriguing excerpts I had read, I chose Black Looks as my first full encounter with this intriguing woman's thoughts.
I did not examine the readers' comments on Black Looks until completing the book, but I too would like to take the opportunity to give the book my whole-hearted endorsement for everyone's perusal.
Unlike the reader who began a review highlighting his leftist political affiliation and interracial marriage/family, I DO believe that this book was intended for that individual reader, as it was intended for me, a white female -- and for all men and women of all colors, backgrounds, and sexual orientations. One's skin color, (marriage) partner, children, class status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, and gender, among many other characteristics, do not determine one's dedication to overcoming the racist, heterosexist, capitalist patriarchy. Indeed, I think that this idea is a theme running throughout Black Looks, as evidenced in bell hooks' essays on Clarence Thomas and Madonna.
I do not find incivility in bell hooks' thoughtful expressions and critiques. Rather, I find a much-needed naming of the incivilities that happen to people in this world, due to various "-ism"s and those who espouse them.
Complaints of "bias" or "slant" in bell hooks' essays and other works seem nonsensical to me, when I recall that no human being's thoughts, feelings, and perspective are "objective." Moreover, "objectivity" is not a quality that one desires in cultural criticism, which functions to set forth an alternative point of view that is so often silenced. An individual who feels the need for "objectivity" in Black Looks might seriously question whether any book, television program, song, or other form of media is "objective," including those forms of communication that comprise mass media.
I think that an individual who can accept that this book is for him/her can also begin to look at mass media with a more critical gaze, an activity that is sorely needed after the hours of unquestioning consumption of TV/movies that fills the evenings and weekends of many Americans.
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerfully Moving
Comment: I'm biracial . . . my father is white and my mother is black, Latina, and Asian. hooks makes us look deeply and critically at the linkages of race, class, gender, and sexuality in ways that are painfully honest and moving. Oppression is never an easy topic. As she has stated, reading hooks' work should make us feel angry, sad, & uncomfortable. Finally, an intellectual who goes beyond the "taken-for-granted" simplistic non-analysis and makes us THINK DEEPLY! This book is a classic!
Rating: 5
Summary: Bell Hooks is a Gifted Thinker
Comment: The cover of this book caught my attention at the library, so I just had to check it out. I must say, Bell Hooks's ideas and opinions are right on the money. She mentions issues such as black male masculinity, feminism, and racism and breaks them down very well. She's not the average traditional black feminist. She's not afraid to talk bad about white folks (like Madonna) and she's brave enough to use the word "white supremacy"; not in a militant way, but more reserved. It's easy to tell she's a liberal, but she's not restricted to traditional left-wing philosophy because of her strong Afro-centric view-points. This is a must read for all Black people, especially Black women who hardly have any intellectual role-model to look up to.
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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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Title: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics by Bell Hooks, Bell Hook ISBN: 0896083853 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black by Bell Hooks ISBN: 0896083527 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks ISBN: 089608129X Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: November, 1981 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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