Black looks
by bell hooks
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"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"--
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Race relationsAfro-American womenRacismAfro-AmericansAfrican American womenSocial conditions
First published 1992Setting
United States1975-
About the author
bell hooks
25 September 1952 – 15 December 2021
Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is derived from that of her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. - modified from Wikipedia
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