Black Looks: Race and Representation - Bell Hooks

Category: Misc. Non-fiction, Political
Language: English
Keywords: African American Essays Feminism Gender Studies Race Social Justice

Written by Bell Hooks
Read by Adenrele Ojo
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
Release date: 06-28-22

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 subvert.” As students, scholars, activists, intellectuals, and any others who have engaged with the book since its original release in 1992 can attest, that’s exactly what these pieces do.