Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (Routledge Classics) | 
| Author: Bell Hooks
Publisher: Routledge
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Pages: 309
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0415389585
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073
EAN: 9780415389587
Publication Date: May 12, 2006
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bell hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, is one of our most clear-eyed and penetrating analysts of culture. Outlaw Culture -- the culture of the margin, of women, of the disenfranchised, of racial and other minorities -- lies at the heart of bell hooks' America. Raising her powerful voice against racism and other forms of oppression in the United States, hooks unlocks the politics of representation and the meaning of that politics for and in our lives.
Using the mix of essays and highly personal dialogues for which she is well known, Outlaw Culture gives us hooks on Spike Lee and Naomi Wolf, Malcolm X and Madonna, Camille Paglia, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ice Cube, and such films as The Bodyguard and The Crying Game.
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 Academic Aneurysm August 19, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Hooks wants to start a revolution and bring academics more in touch with the "common woman or man." Although her first chapter/essay on Madonna's lack of a feminist touch is edifying and I enjoyed it, she did not write it in plain speak. A sharp contrast exists between her gutter-mouth essay title and the scholarly writing within the pages. The only explanation I can offer is that hooks really wants to avoid classification of any kind.
Things that lurk below the surface... July 6, 2004
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is certainly one amazing book. bell hooks superbly crafts her argument to truly make her readers think, to make them look at seemingly clear-cut issues in a different light. hooks shows very convincingly that there are many issues below the surface that we must explore if we are ever to have true equity and equality in our society. She cleverly exposes some of the subtle ways in which the powers that be maintain their power, sometimes deliberately, sometimes unwittingly, and she shows how the latter way is the most insidious one and does the most damage.
At the same time, hooks is not always true to her word. She demands for herself complete freedom from censorship but in her own way attempts to censor or at least discredit those women who might disagree with her. Second, I appreciate her condemnation of black violence, but following that with a "I condemn, but..."
makes one wonder about her true feelings. And in her essay on Columbus, hooks does exhibit her limited knowledge of American Indian issues. An excellent book to force readers to examine their own thoughts and actions but even better if people read between the lines and expose hooks' own prejudices.
Excellent! I can't wait to read more! May 20, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
bell hooks does an excellent job in exploring pop culture and its relationship to African Americans. I found all of the essays interesting but was particularly moved by Seduced by Violence No More in which I felt like I was slapped across the face. There are sections in that particular essay that read as if hooks had had a personal window into my life! Other essays that stood out to me included Crying Game meets The Body Guard, Misrepresenting the Black Underclass, and Censorship from Right to Left. I recommend this book to anyone interested in hearing a powerful direct view on pop culture and its effects.
Ouch! May 20, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
bell hooks does an excellent job in exploring pop culture and its relationship to African Americans. I found all of the essays interesting but was particularly moved by Seduced by Violence No More, Crying Game meets The Body Guard, Misrepresenting the Black Underclass, and Censorship from Right to Left. I recommend this book to anyone interested in hearing a powerful direct view on pop culture and its effects.
A very indepth medium to connect reality with proposition February 22, 2003
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I came across bell hooks very recently. I have found her work to be very direct and very, very challenging. Resisting Reresentations has done a lot of things to my mind. Although I consider myself "in-the-now" with ideas on social issues, after reading this book I am left with a feeling of re-birth. hooks speaks of many issues I agree with (and some I am not so sure I swallow completely). These issues and hooks' analysis of them has made me learn to laterally think and critically observe our world. I am a woman who believes in the eradication of sexism on all levels but now I must make my belief the engine to keep the eradication machine existent. Any woman, or man, who needs inspiration to challenge the many institutions that support racism, sexism and captalism start with bell hooks. She forces you to use your brain and think. This is a quality that many intellectualists fail to possess.
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