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  <title><![CDATA[Black Looks: Race and Representation]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this book, bell hooks has a piece on Madonna and why she's culturally insensitive and socially irresponsible. I first read that piece in 2001, well before her much-publicized and maligned baby-swiping. The essay is dated; it talks a lot about Truth Or Dare and Madonna's rise to stardom. And at th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1786014">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[bell hooks' most academic work, Black Looks, is also my favorite, although not necessarily because it is academic. In my favorite essay, Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance, hooks writes, &quot;Within commodity culture, ethnicity becomes spice, seasoning that can liven up the dull dish that is m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6347640">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The history of black liberation movements in the United States could be characterized as a struggle over images as much as it has also been a struggle for rights, for equal access.&quot;  Amen I say and of course I extend this too all liberation movements collective and personal; in the clever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4465896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Black Looks : Race and Representation by Bell Hooks (1992)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic in cultural studies, you have to love a collection of essays that includes one called &quot;Madonna: Sister or Plantation Mistress.&quot; And being a bunch of essays, it is well-suited to morning commutes or bedtime reading without feeling like being forced to put it down just when you are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10020777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Any bell hooks book is worth a read. In this collection of 12 essays hooks takes on popular music, advertising, literature, television, historical narrative, and film in an exploration of race, representation, and resistance. Should be required reading for the planet. Her perspective is fresh and st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30418404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm extremely impressed with the way in which this book conveys a sophisticated analysis of the problems of race and representation in a manner that is clear, exciting, and without pretense.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[bell hooks schooled me in multiple chapters of this book... i loved it. <br/>she is pointedly critical and sharp in her analysis of films and relationships...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like bell hooks -- this wasn't necessarily one of my favorites, but...  I am pretty sure this was required reading for a class at Purdue.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, but with everything else on the list AND I couldn't renew it any more from the library.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a great essay in here called, &quot;Eating the Other.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[PERFECTION]]></body>
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