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Outlaw culture : resisting representations

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  • Author: hooks, bell
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    1994
    Summary:

    According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a 'powerful site for intervention, challenge and change'. And intervene, challenge and change is what hooks does best.

    Contents:
    • Introduction: The Heartbeat of Cultural Revolution
    • 1. Power to the Pussy: We Don't Wannabe Dicks in Drag
    • 2. Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat
    • 3. What's Passion Got To Do With It?: An Interview with Marie-France Alderman
    • 4. Seduction and Betrayal: The Crying Game Meets The Bodyguard
    • 5. Censorship from Left and Right
    • 6. Talking Sex: Beyond the Patriarchal Phallic Imaginary
    • 7. Camille Paglia: "Black" Pagan or White Colonizer?
    • 8. Dissident Heat: Fire with Fire
    • 9. Katie Roiphe: A Little Feminist Excess Goes a Long Way
    • 10. Seduced by Violence No More
    • 11. Gangsta Culture - Sexism and Misogyny: Who Will Take the Rap?
    • 12. Ice Cube Culture: A Shared Passion for Speaking Truth
    • 13. Spending Culture: Marketing the Black Underclass
    • 14. Spike Lee Doing Malcolm X: Denying Black Pain
    • 15. Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor
    • 16. Back to Black: Ending Internalized Racism
    • 17. Malcolm X: The Longed-for Feminist Manhood
    • 18. Columbus: Gone But Not Forgotten
    • 19. Moving Into and Beyond Feminism: Just for the Joy of It
    • 20. Love as the Practice of Freedom.
    Subject(s): 1975 | African Americans | Feminism | Intellectual life | Social conditions | United States
    Original Publisher: New York, Routledge
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 0415908108, 0415908116