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Summary: Understanding the roots of Racism
Review: After reading this book and reading the Amazon.com readers' reviews to this book, it is evident that there are "White-readers" who do not understand hooks' point and the basic notion and theory behind racism. My suggestion is that if you are white, you should explore the topics of racism, power, and class before attempting to understand the depths of which hooks is writing.
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Summary: Hate Speech
Review: bell hooks books are filled with hate speech directed against white males. This wouldn't be tolerated if it was directed against any other group.
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Summary: superp and moving
Review: bell hooks challenges the economically and educationally advantaged white feminists who would conduct their discourse amongst themselves rather than allow a Black woman to offer her own ideas. In fact, ideas are the purpose of this book, allowing ideas to proliferate in the classroom instead of allowing racist stereotypes prevail. This is a courageous and brilliant book, and something of a threat to the institutionalized and priviledged feminism of white women, particularly at the universities of this country. White feminists ignore this book at their peril, and should read it immediately.
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Summary: Hate Speech
Review: For all of my colleagues who have yet to read this book, get it and read it. Ingest it. Allow the words to brew in your mind. Begin to visualize in your mind's eye how you might become the kind of educator hooks' advocates for. I strongly recommed this book for all educators, no matter what level you teach.
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Summary: A Classic
Review: For all of my colleagues who have yet to read this book, get it and read it. Ingest it. Allow the words to brew in your mind. Begin to visualize in your mind's eye how you might become the kind of educator hooks' advocates for. I strongly recommed this book for all educators, no matter what level you teach.
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Summary: Explanation for Lower Case Letters
Review: FYI: bell hooks writes her name in lowercase letters because it is a pseudonym. Specifically, it is her grandmother's name. She uses lowercase letters to show honor and respect to the original Bell Hooks, as she pays homage to her by using her name.
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Summary: Explanation for Lower Case Letters
Review: FYI: bell hooks writes her name in lowercase letters because it is a pseudonym. Specifically, it is her grandmother's name. She uses lowercase letters to show honor and respect to the original Bell Hooks, as she pays homage to her by using her name.
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Summary: This Book Changed My Life
Review: hooks does an exemplary job of illuminating, in accessible language, the ways in which race, class and sex intersect in "the academy" and in the classroom. I highly recommend this book to anyone who teaches -- in higher ed or K-12.If you are White and/or middle class and are willing to *listen* to what hooks offers, you may well say, after reading her book: "I was blind, but now I see." hooks may not cater to a middle-class, white readership (nor should she), but those of us who fall into those categories certainly can learn from her experiences and from her critical analysis.Open your mind. Let your defenses down. And sink into a book that can change the way you approach classroom instruction -- and, perhaps, the way you live your life.
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Summary: This Book Changed My Life
Review: hooks does an exemplary job of illuminating, in accessible language, the ways in which race, class and sex intersect in "the academy" and in the classroom. I highly recommend this book to anyone who teaches -- in higher ed or K-12. If you are White and/or middle class and are willing to *listen* to what hooks offers, you may well say, after reading her book: "I was blind, but now I see." hooks may not cater to a middle-class, white readership (nor should she), but those of us who fall into those categories certainly can learn from her experiences and from her critical analysis.Open your mind. Let your defenses down. And sink into a book that can change the way you approach classroom instruction -- and, perhaps, the way you live your life.
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Summary: loving herself
Review: I had heard hooks referred to in articles and looked to forward to reading her. I couldn't believe how shoddy and narcissistic her writing was. Now I know why she uses no caps in her name--she is special; she is above any of the rules the rest of us have to follow. She claims those of us who teach must be self-actualized (like her) and must save the souls of our students. Ms. hooks should send away for the minister's certificate and open her own church. It isn't surprising that she has no footnotes in this incoherent collection of unstructured essays. One chapter is an imagined interview with Freire, another is a talk she had with someone at a conference, another talks endlessly about problems she had with conservatives at a college. Only today would a book like this be published and only in today's pc atmosphere would a lazy thinker like bell hooks be a full professor at an American University.
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