Black Looks

Race and Representation

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: "the essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert." As students, scholars, activists, intellectuals, and any others who have engaged with the book since its original release in 1992 can attest, that's exactly what these pieces do.

©1992 Gloria Watkins (P)2022 Tantor

classic bell hooks

wish i read this one before sisters of the yam. kind of similar imo, but that might just be because i am not black and i dont know that much about black american history. never had a “HELL YEAH” moment, but if youre looking for bell hooks, thtis is bell hooks, and im sure youll find it enjoyable