bell hooks Pt 2 cultural criticism and transformation

[fleurgi]

i am writing a paper on bell hooks eating the other. thanks for this upload

[itsmissvsworld]

I am loving this video. Thanks so much for the upload.

[arielhans]

I appreciate that Mrs Hook can stand out to talk about big social issues as race and gender. Hooks is right that people already have certain stereotype of race and culture. We r consiciously knowing what kinds of imagine will impact us. Mass media was used to back women into feminism and use black as bad guy. But we cannot understand black, women, or others simply from single factor or self belief yet institutional structure. we should go deeply to inferiorties' lives and show them more respect.

[avilavr]

@arielhans The intentional use of all lower-case letters bell hooks uses in her name is to pay homage to her grandmother (named bell hooks). She purposely uses all lower-case letters because slaves, to include her grandmother, were not allowed to use capitol letters in their names. If you listen to her explanation regarding White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy, she explains how discrimination is interrelated and perpetuated by way of the continued degradation of those 'less privileged'.

[Yinweiyi]

In the films "Smoke” and "Star Wars", they all have black actors which played a villain. I agree with her, because to choose a black guy always doing something bad can let audience fell black people are all bad. This is a racial discrimination through the media.

[Yinweiyi]

In the films "Smoke” and "Star Wars", they all have black actors which played a villain. I agree with her, because to choose a black guy always doing something bad can let audience fell black people are all bad. This is a racial discrimination through the media.

[leechie3]

She talked about race discrimination and gender problems.

I believe that humans are equal and should possess the basic rights or at least some people shouldn't be discriminated against such as black people.

Also Feminist education is necessary in this modern society, so women can overcome the misunderstandings that remain from the past. Especially in China, gender discriminations are very serious.

[venusvelvet1]

bell hooks’s talk was really true and the realities are in front of our own eyes. The world systems are dominated by men and women are still considered inferior. The Capitalist system has caused the rich people to become super rich and the poor become poorer. The gaps between these classes are much larger now compared to 20 to 30 years ago.

[SubliminalMinded2011]

also, (if any of you haven't already) look up the Nicean Council.

They implemented the fallacy of "Race". (as well as the fallacy of praising Jesus).

Check out the reason WHY they created the idea of "race".

[SubliminalMinded2011]

I encourage everyone here, to do research about the TAVISTOCK institute.

If you already know about this institution, then good.

Spread the info.

Bell Hooks hints on what these operations have been doing to us for decades.

Please regard this very seriously,... its not "conspiracy theory".

Its no theory.

Most of us only accept things at face value.

The elites who greenlight these images are NOT playing games.

They have real agendas.

[Rachhh2014]

Hooks begins to give a different sort of evaluation to our society's image through media in the form of music, movies, and literature. Her opinions regarding women in rap videos is dead on, and I couldn't agree more how it's our own fault for letting the media continue to see women as a thing to be used or displayed. As a society we need to stop being so engaged in just the entertainment aspect of our movies, and go deeper in to the real messages these directors are displaying.

[stopthat21]

Good review starting at 4:33

[uncompromising34]

I admire Bell Hooks but shes reaching a bit in some of these movies.. Darth Vader is now part of a power systems tool?. They chose James Earl Jones because he had a great voice, she dismisses his acting ability in gaining that role.

[sexdrugsRnR]

@uncompromising34 this is a great comment about what she is speaking about when she says 'collusion'

[rychousmama]

I love how she's not scared of claiming that movies are a major tool of propaganda promoting white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy.  Fearlessness and compassion for humanity are at the root of positive change and revolution!

[SandrineSoprano]

Loves her

[BermanRN5740]

Thank you for sharing this video Professor Funk. It made your point for Unit 7 perfectly.

[aboveriver]

@BermanRN5740 Go Professor Funk!

[BermanRN5740]

Thank you for sharing this video Professor Funk. It made your point for Unit 7 perfectly.

[skape101]

I get what she is saying, but at the same time, it's about believability.... Like in the 80s you'd have these interracial street gangs with blacks, whites, mexicans with bandanas looking like the Beat-it video and it's JUST NOT BELIEVABLE.

And James Earl Jones as Darth Vader? The dude has the most amazing official imperial voice, of course he's gonna me the baddest mofo in the universe... to lump that in with "Cultural Racism" weakens her point.

[StagnantBeetz]

"You can fuck me in my ass. You can cum on my face." Lol. Love that part..

[Mjhavok]

@StagnantBeetz Thanks for your participation.

[normbear]

I never realized that Darth Vader's voice was James Earl Jones, or that it was a black man's voice, until she pointed it out--sorry. Otherwise, she's right on, but I think "identity" is everyone's problem, no matter what race, ethnicity, nationality, etc. Soccer fans of the same race, etc., killing each other because they identify with a team is an example. Everyone needs to examine the sources of their identity and realize there's a whole world of values to choose from. Create your own.

[yarafeld]

I see the validity in this, but I think it's also important to acknowledge that the creation of a self-identity will inevitably occur within the matrix of domination and repression that Bell Hooks calls white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Examining the sources of identity and picking from a grab bag of values is not as open a process as some might imagine, because these processes do not occur within a vacuum - they occur within a very specific context that is based on hierarchical systems.

[yarafeld]

What I admire most about Bell Hooks is her ability to explain very complex theoretical ideas in clear terms so as to make her thoughts on crucial issues accessible to others. She is a true scholar - unassuming and unpretentious, unwavering in her analysis of American society. Her pioneering analysis of the cultural representations of minorities really sheds light on both the deliberate nature of many visual representations of people of color and how strongly the media influences us.

[normbear]

She is truly gifted, and her gift to us is huge.

[normbear]

I totally agree, but given that everything we think and do occurs within the context of all that has gone before, the closest we can come to an independent identity is to study this matrix of domination and repression, these hierarchical systems, and try to understand their influences on what we think of ourselves. Bell Hooks offers us a wonderful insight into these systems, and I'm grateful for that. How can we free ourselves except to begin by understanding that which has enslaved us?

[springgardenrose]

Further--if the internet is supposed to transcend information to blacks--it does not-- most blacks do not have a computer, or operate it. Sadly, this is why blacks are left out of the technocratic age while crying for more Jordans. So, I hope you understand that as these scholars do not enter most black communities--they will not here. Bell Hooks has allowed the same demons she speak of to destroy her health and natural essences. Did you see the pictures of her kissing white women!

[vandexter101]

when you say "most blacks" do you mean more then 50% of african americans or do mean genrally all people's of african descent, becouse if its the first then please could you provide same emprical or statical evidence; is just a little irritating to block a diverise and global communties and blur socio-economic lines under a common and samewhat confusing phrase like "blacks".

[springgardenrose]

Another thing is the word whore game black scholars and so-call intellectuals play with the public- most blacks do not know who these people are nevertheless-what is "macrostructures" and "patriarchy"--as you state below. Blacks must start to look beyond the black community for valuable and holistic ways of living and rebuilding our selves--other ethnic groups have suffered under supremacy- and are now a power structure. Supremacy and its institutions reaches beyond whiteness--

[springgardenrose]

White supremacy and patriarchy are white constructs that we fall into a belief system with. An Africana Studies professor said--we must stop taking on, living, the language, and beliefs of non black people. White supremacy, patriarchy is the same as "minority", we are the not the minority. We better wake up to the power in language because we are speaking ourselves out of existence. A lot Agents in the academy.  We lack power--we speak no powerful words.

[saznxboy]

What your analysis is lacking here is a discussion about power and hegemony. You assume that marginalized people have the agency and the context to be able to break out of the macrostructures of whiteness and patriarchy, but what is left out is the significance of coercion. When folks are placed into a system of domination, they are not aware of these systems and therefore allow the oppression to manifest. I think scholars like hooks point bring that awareness and knowledge to then provide...

[saznxboy]

(continued...) communities with that power and agency to break free and achieve the idealism that you imply.

[yarafeld]

Right on. Social and political consciousness are difficult to achieve for oppressed people because they are living under a system that reinforces their supposed infereiority through subjugation that it declares normal, natural and necessary. Fighting back is not at all easy because one would first have to consciously resist the idea that one is what the culture says one is - and how easy is it to do this when you are ubiquitously represented as inferior by both the system and others like you?

[springgardenrose]

If we do not have the in-tack communities after supporting the positions of so-called scholars such as Bell Hooks and others--then the scholars are just as responsible for a community wasting away. I am not a black pacifist--nor a lesbian or feminist who has assist whites in the destruction of the black family. Moyniham report revisited--first degraded now prolific--as black scholars report. Blacks want an appeasement for behaviors that have more to do with morality than white supremacy.

[springgardenrose]

Why is it that every time a black scholar tell us what is good for us we do not challenge them on the greatness. We listen to all of these people that are slowly dying because the methods that keep them showing up for the academy everyday is killing them. And like many, I am tired of blaming white people for our actions. White people are rich because they use our history--what we do, create, provide, against us, and we allow this. There must be a willing victim before their is crime!

[Helimoth]

@springgardenrose To interpret your attempt at insight: If the victim was willing, they would not be a victim, therefore the crime would not be a crime.

[crazeegirl4life]

THIS WOMAN IS AMAZING!! Her brain cells must firing over time!.. She just conceptualises beautifully and hell of a lot better, everything i have spoken about throughout the years with people! Genius!

[TheGoddessNetworks]

I AGREE! She speaks what many are scared to say! I love how she challenges us all

[michestud]

AMEN!!!!!

[jankenb2]

Language is the tool we use to reflect on our thoughts and is the tool we use to construct, make use and project our version of truth. She uses the phrase experiential reality to signify that our scheme is dependent upon our experience. This is a great term. It keeps us mindful of the limitations of perspective caused by unreflective use of our own lens. bell shows us how important a common language is when searching for solutions to discussing race and racism.

Thank you bell.

[dcpeaches]

thank you, too

[freethinker17]

yeah I was with her completely till she started talking about star wars.

[cocashortcake]

she says everything i have been thinking about.

[cliplicious]

The themes present?

- European Judeo-Christian representation of the dychotomy between good and evil

- Judgement about Masculine Qualities/ traits in the representation of power

- Paternalism: in a kind of 'every man must face his father way'

= Racism? no. I agree that the media perpetuates negative stereotypes of black men, but usually its not even subliminal!

Don't look at everything like its one of those 3-D puzzles, if you look hard enough OF COURSE something's going to pop out at you.

[cliplicious]

1. european judeo-christian colors of good and evil, life and death, pure and impure: white and black respectively.

(storm troopers being in white gear is a visual aesthetic choice)

Luke: White Outfit

Vader: Black Outfit

2. - Men with deep booming voices have historically been seen as more masculine and more powerful than men with high voices ( deeper voice = more testosterone = bigger balls)

[thekure42]

What? The voice of James Earl Jones sounds evil because he's black? Not everything can be explained by white people being bad, you know.

[Gunnabee]

The fact that James Earl Jone's voice is intimately recognised as a black voice is not a mistake or accident. Its a deliberate choice. Why didn't they use the voice of Mickey Mouse? What made them choose JEJ?

What informed this choice?

Blackness is criminalised and franchised as a genre in movie making and is historically linked back slavery and the birth of white supremacy.

bell hooks is not condemning white people, but rather white supremacy. There is a difference.

[carpeteria]

I agree with nearly all of her examples, but the JEJ as Darth Vader example is a bit of a stretch - George Lucas wanted Orson Welles as the voice of Vader originally, but couldn't get him. Using "Mickey Mouse" would be absurd - he wanted an actor with a deep, resonant voice, just like CNN did when they hired JEJ. Nothing racial about this one, in my opinion. She's dead on with pretty much everything else, though.

[Randrew1986]

If Darth Vader sounded like Mickey Mouse, would you have taken him seriously? The choice of James Earl Jones has nothing to do with being black but rather he has a very commanding voice that you have to take seriously and listen to what he says.

[JordanjamesX]

bell hooks is the best she is a genius!!!!

[barracuda919]

yeah, it takes real genius to figure out why the director would choose a black kid for the criminal...buncha' dumbasses. get ur heads outta' ur asses

[wjswallow]

eye opening subject ... a must for all women.

[kindu2006]

genius

[looker768]

Thank you bell hooks! I felt so alone before reading your works.

[StongBlackWoman]

I love Bell Hooks

[nelaloco]

thanks for posting...!