Black Looks: Race and Representation
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Black Looks: Race and Representation is a collection of critical essays by bell hooks that examines the politics of race, gender, and representation in popular culture and visual media.
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| Black Looks: Race and Representation canonical | 1 |
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book
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essay collection ⓘ |
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analyze intersections of race, gender, and class in media
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critique racist imagery in popular culture ⓘ propose liberatory ways of seeing for Black viewers ⓘ |
| author | bell hooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributor | bell hooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field |
African American studies
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film studies ⓘ media studies ⓘ |
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Black spectatorship
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advertising ⓘ commodification of Black culture ⓘ film ⓘ music videos ⓘ photography ⓘ sexualization of Black bodies ⓘ stereotypes of Black men ⓘ stereotypes of Black women ⓘ television ⓘ |
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cultural criticism
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feminist theory ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
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“Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance”
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“In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Reconstructing Black Masculinity” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Black Women’s Roles in the Movies” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
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Black feminism
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Black representation ⓘ gender ⓘ oppositional gaze ⓘ popular culture ⓘ race ⓘ representation ⓘ visual media ⓘ white supremacy ⓘ |
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Black feminism
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critical race theory ⓘ intersectional feminism ⓘ |
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critiquing mainstream representations of Black femininity
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developing the concept of the oppositional gaze ⓘ influencing Black feminist film criticism ⓘ |
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Marxist cultural criticism
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feminist theory ⓘ postcolonial theory ⓘ |
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