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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instanceOf book
essay collection
aimsTo analyze intersections of race, gender, and class in media
critique racist imagery in popular culture
propose liberatory ways of seeing for Black viewers
author bell hooks NERFINISHED
contributor bell hooks NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
field African American studies NERFINISHED
film studies
media studies
focusesOn Black spectatorship
advertising
commodification of Black culture
film
music videos
photography
sexualization of Black bodies
stereotypes of Black men
stereotypes of Black women
television
genre cultural criticism
feminist theory
nonfiction
hasPart “Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance” NERFINISHED
“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
mainSubject Black feminism NERFINISHED
Black representation
gender
oppositional gaze
popular culture
race
representation
visual media
white supremacy
movement Black feminism NERFINISHED
critical race theory
intersectional feminism
notableFor critiquing mainstream representations of Black femininity
developing the concept of the oppositional gaze
influencing Black feminist film criticism
theoreticalFramework Marxist cultural criticism
feminist theory
postcolonial theory

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bell hooks notableWork Black Looks: Race and Representation