intrigued by Bells Hooks writing. Bell Hooks born Gloria Jean Watkins was born September 25‚ 1952 in a black neighborhood in Hopkinsville a small‚ segregated town in rural Kentucky. With her father who worked as a janitor‚ and her mother‚ Rosa Bell Oldham Watkins‚ who worked as a maid in the homes of white families‚ Hooks used her experience of rural living‚ poverty‚ racial segregation‚ and resistance struggle in her works. Hooks wrote in an essay “Keeping Close to Home” from Black Looks and described
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which present interesting views on higher education are bell hook’s “Keeping Close to Home” and Adrienne Rich’s “What Does a Woman Need to Know?” Hooks views higher education with a concern for the underprivileged‚ whereas Rich views it with a concern for women. Of the two works‚ I personally do not agree with Rich’s argument. Bell hooks views higher education to be a time in which we find ourselves and learn more about who we are. This concept remains
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Home” was written by Bell Hooks. Bell hooks whose original name was Gloria Watkins was born in 1952. Hooks is one of the top leading cultural and educational theorists in America. In education she Hooks has received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. In this essay hooks talk about her journey to educate herself and not losing her sense of where she came from as African-American woman from a working class background (Bell Hooks‚ Keeping close to
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5/6/12 Analysis Paper: Black Women “Ain’t I a Woman by Bell Hooks brings to light many aspects of how many oppressive forces such as racism and sexism can affect woman’s life. The book emphasizes how these deep interconnections between sexism and race are the key reasons why black women especially‚ struggle for liberation. Hooks takes a feminist stand point to expose the strengths and suffering of black women. This analysis will address the concept of patriarchy hooks emphases and many different
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In the article “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor” by bell hooks‚ she is evaluating the misrepresentation of the poor and their values by society and explaining how humanity should change the way they label the underclass. Much of the nation believes that the poor do not have any values‚ morals‚ work ethic‚ integrity‚ and cannot be trusted. This is supported by hooks‚ concerning her college teachers and classmates remarks regarding the poor‚ when she quotes‚ “I was shocked…by the comments
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needs to be stopped. bell hooks also suggests that both males and females have to acknowledge that the problem is patriarchy and work to end patriarchy. hooks’ starts off her article with the definition of patriarchy‚ which is a single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. In other words‚ patriarchy is a political system that insists that males inherently dominating‚ superior to everything and everyone deemed weak‚
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second half of Bell Hooks’ work. In this book‚ Hooks is giving the reader an insight into her experiences as a Black female feminist educator teaching about Black women’s issues. Although I myself am not Black‚ as a Mexican-American woman pursuing an academic career‚ I could relate to a vast amount of what Hooks stated throughout the book. The point that struck me the most was the discussion of critiques and the validation of experience in academia (Hooks‚ 1994). In chapter 6‚ Hooks critiques Diana
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As you read bell hooks’s Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor‚ it’s hard not to ask yourself the question‚ how do I see the poor? In her writing‚ she declares that issues like stereotypical thinking and negative cultural portrayal are the downfall of this economic status. hooks‚ herself‚ came from a background of poverty and thus‚ through her study‚ sets out to battle the stigma that is associated with being poor. I believe that hooks has a valid point and that within my lifetime‚ we
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Love vs. Punishment In the article “Justice: Childhood Love Lessons” bell hooks claims that “there is nothing that creates more confusion about love in the minds and hearts of children than unkind or cruel punishment” (hooks 27). In other words punishment of any kind‚ let it be pinching‚ flicking or spanking will result in disorientation in a child’s mind. This statement is true to some people‚ false to others‚ but overall hooks tends to be bias in her argument. She doesn’t explore the different variations
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bell hooks’ examination of black female spectatorship is‚ as she discusses in the essay ‘The oppositional gaze’‚ is a comparatively unexplored territory by scholars. She focuses on cinema in its early form as a unique site for a gaze to emerge that opposed the assumed maleness and whiteness of the viewer. Hooks’ main argument stems from the idea that the black women are doubly excluded from the practices of looking as a hierarchical structure continuing to use this in terms of cinema. She argues
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