Where We Stand: Class Matters

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Summary: thanks bell hooks!
Review: Thanks bell hooks! I have never read a book that explained so clearly the feelings I've had growing up in a working class family and the struggles I've endured (even as a white girl). I sensed bell hooks compassion and spirituality throughout this book. I only wish that our political leaders and our religious leaders would take time to read it.

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Summary: thanks bell hooks!
Review: Thanks bell hooks! I have never read a book that explained so clearly the feelings I've had growing up in a working class family and the struggles I've endured (even as a white girl). I sensed bell hooks compassion and spirituality throughout this book. I only wish that our political leaders and our religious leaders would take time to read it.

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Summary: standing at the center of a exploration
Review: This book cuts to the bone of fleshy ignorance. Most of us hear about the particular "ism's" that plague our culture, racism this or sexism that. Yet she somehow, in one brilliant piece of writing, cuts through all the social trappings and gets to the heart of it. She describes class in a way that seems so simple to see, and yet so foreign to my mind. The history of hooks comes to me by way of ideas that were carefully sifted through. The reading is easy, but the pin point accuracy of her thoughts take some getting use to. It may seem a little one sided at first, but it soon flowers into a real social workbook.

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Summary: Left Me Speechless: But More Aware
Review: This book was very interesting. Page after page I saw my own prejudice thoughts appear in here book which was very disturbing to me. i couldn't believe how shallow and self righteous I was. It was actually embarrasing. I did too believe that success was only obtain if you were given recoginiton by the white man. Not realizing that everyone is the same that recoginition should be honored more with your own people than anyone else. i also saw how we seem to need for others to be poor so we can feel like we have success, it should not be like that, we should want to help other that is what our ancestors would have wanted. This was an awesome book and i will recommend it to others!

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Summary: class
Review: When reading Bell Hooks class matters i came to realize the importance of why class matters. Bell's examples of how her family did not talk about class relate to me. In my family we never considered where we stood in society. My parents would try to do there best to raise me, but they never complained that it was because of our class when it really was. Bell hooks let me understand where my place in society is through her book.

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Summary: Class Matters
Review: When reading the book I began to realize what social class I am in and how it effects the person I am. I never really thought about how my social class effected me or exactly where I fit into society. It was never an issure for me or my family. Bell Hooks did a good job at describing her social class and how her family never talked about it and how that effected her. I would recommend this book to anyone.

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Summary: Class Matters
Review: When reading the book I began to realize what social class I am in and how it effects the person I am. I never really thought about how my social class effected me or exactly where I fit into society. It was never an issure for me or my family. Bell Hooks did a good job at describing her social class and how her family never talked about it and how that effected her. I would recommend this book to anyone.

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Summary: Coming Out Of The Shadows
Review: Where We Stand by bell hooks addresses the issue of class in society. She does this by using her experiences in her life growing up as a black female born into the lower class. This book discusses Hooks's struggle to climb the social ladder and what inhibits others from doing the same thing. This novel addesses all the issues of class that are in the shadows that no one else will bring up. After reading this book I was forced to look at social class in a different way. It will be an educational experience for anyone who reads it.

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Summary: Where We Stand: Class Matters
Review: Where We Stand is a book that relates class and race. As you read you are confronted with a number of instances related to you by the author about her childhood. She does this to illustrate her point when confronted by class discrimination that goes beyond race later in the book. I read this for a College level English class and was constantly analyzing, and picking apart this piece of literature. during the course of our discussion, we came to the conclusion that bell hooks was seeing past the social constraints and looking at the real "problem" with society, Class. This seems like a good idea, but throughout the book I was constantly agitated with the way she presents material and argues her point, halfway through the book I put it down, I didn't need this monologue of at times childish whining.

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Summary: No More Than You Would Expect
Review: You have only so much time upon this earth. Do not waste even one minute on the musings of this mediocrity, bell hooks. If you have ever endured a freshman orientation "diversity" lecture, you've heard everything this dullard has to offer. She is standard-issue academic Left.