| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface to the new edition -- introduction: revolutionary attitude -- 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 |
| 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." |
| Notes |
Originally published: Boston, Massachusetts : South End Press, 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-306) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
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African Americans in popular culture.
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African American women.
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Sex role -- United States
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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White people -- Race identity -- United States
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Racism -- United States
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African American women
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African Americans in popular culture
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African Americans -- Race identity
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African Americans -- Social conditions
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Race relations
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Racism
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Sex role
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White people -- Race identity
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Afro-amerikanska kvinnor.
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Afro-amerikanska kvinnor i populärkulturen.
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Rasism -- Förenta staterna.
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United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317588498 |
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1317588495 |
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