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Preface to the new edition -- 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;"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 subv

Who reads Black Looks : Race and Representation?

Author

Hooks, Bell

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (CAM);Routledge

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138821552

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Sociology

Rating

4.28 / 5 (1,560 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14