Black looks
1992·200 pages
bell hooks' critical essays challenge narratives on race, blackness, and representation in media and culture.
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bell hooks' critical essays challenge narratives on race, blackness, and representation in media and culture.
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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 an...
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Romance & sex
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Brief mentions of sexual themes in cultural critique; not explicit. To sexual violence in historical and cultural context.
Violence & gore
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Minor references to violence in context of cultural analysis.
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Minor discussion of gender and sexuality intersections with race.
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central focus on race, white supremacy, and feminist cultural critique.
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Abuse & suffering
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Frequent discussion of systemic racism, slavery, and cultural oppression. To sexual violence in historical and cultural context.
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