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She put the name in lowercase letters "to distinguish [herself from] her great-grandmother." She said that her unconventional lowercasing of her name signifies that what is most important to focus upon is her works, not her personal qualities: the "substance of books, not who I am." Take from that what you want
Ahh these academics and their aesthetics :shaq2:
 

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Her master gloria steinem is still alive :scust:a whole generation of women are mentally fukked because of this bytch
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CIA plants hang together. Anyone not seeing this is an agent.
 

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Bell hooks on black men in the Central Park 5 case

bell hooks on Central Park 5:

"No one can truly believe that the young black malesinvolved in the Central Park incident were not engagedin a suicidal ritual enactment of a dangerousmasculinity that will ultimately threaten their lives, their well-being. If one reads again Michael Dyson's piece "The Plight of Black Men," focusing especially on the part where he describes the reason many young black

men form gangs-"the sense of absolute belonging
and unsurpassed love"-it is easy to understand whyyoung black males are despairing and nihilistic.

And itis rather naive to think that if they do not value their own lives, they will value the lives of others. Is it really so difficult for folks to see the connection between the constant pornographic glorification of male violence against women that is represented, enacted, and condoned daily in the culture and the CentralPark crime?"


bell hooks,
"Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural
Politics" p. 106.
to defend her, this book was published in 1990. There was no movement to defend those boys in 1990. Al Sharpton stayed away from it, IIRC. The boys were exonerated 2002. I know brehs don't like context and history, but if you go back to that time period there wasn't that much defending of them or saying its bullshyt.
 

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Bell hooks on black men in the Central Park 5 case

bell hooks on Central Park 5:

"No one can truly believe that the young black malesinvolved in the Central Park incident were not engagedin a suicidal ritual enactment of a dangerousmasculinity that will ultimately threaten their lives, their well-being. If one reads again Michael Dyson's piece "The Plight of Black Men," focusing especially on the part where he describes the reason many young black

men form gangs-"the sense of absolute belonging
and unsurpassed love"-it is easy to understand whyyoung black males are despairing and nihilistic.

And itis rather naive to think that if they do not value their own lives, they will value the lives of others. Is it really so difficult for folks to see the connection between the constant pornographic glorification of male violence against women that is represented, enacted, and condoned daily in the culture and the CentralPark crime?"


bell hooks,
"Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural
Politics" p. 106.
Stop bringing them nikkas up :mjlol:

They were never “exonerated” and all the evidence proves that they were complicit in gang sexual assault they just weren’t the ones who penetrated the vagina and discarded the body that happened to be Kory’s boy “Rudy” aka Matias Reyes who would take the full wrap years later
 

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Her master gloria steinem is still alive :scust:a whole generation of women are mentally fukked because of this bytch
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you brehs will be surprised by how many art institutions, cultural groups, social groups and black institutions and media outlets were funded by the State Department, and specifically within the state department with the CIA. (Thats not a defense, but a lot of this was due to the Cold War. I wouldn't be surprised if it is still happening though)
 

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What did Bell Hooks do that has so may of y’all in a tizzy?

School me cuz I’ve never read any of her work.

Bascially she's GOD to crazy black feminist on Twitter.

Most notably her work is academically dubious (basically she just writes shyt without any scientific backing). She's been paraded around academic circles by white women.

Her most notable subject is "nikkas ain't shyt."

you brehs will be surprised by how many art institutions, cultural groups, social groups and black institutions and media outlets were funded by the State Department, and specifically within the state department with the CIA. (Thats not a defense, but a lot of this was due to the Cold War. I wouldn't be surprised if it is still happening though)

RIP (I just don't wanna be mean), but, bell hooks work is bad for Black America. Borderline racist tropes not based on scholarship.
 

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nikkas in here shytting on a Black woman who's body isn't even cold yet and can't put forth any meaningful counterarguments to the snippets of her work they're quoting.


color me shocked.

:francis:
:snoop: Never change, breh.


I ask how did she academically observe this?:francis:
Brehs r being disrespectful. But, she's got horrible work.

Bell hooks on black men white women

“White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them to act as exploiters and oppressors of women. White women may be victimized by sexism, but racism enables them to act as exploiters and oppressors of black people. Both groups have led liberation movements that favor their interests and support the continued oppression of other groups. Black male sexism has undermined struggles to eradicate racism just as white female racism undermines feminist struggle. As long as these two groups or any group defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others”
 
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