Outlaw Culture: Resisting RepresentationsAccording to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a 'powerful site for intervention, challenge and change'. And intervene, challenge and change is what hooks does best. |
Contents
The heartbeat of cultural revolution | 1 |
We dont wannabe dicks in drag | 9 |
Remembering Basquiat | 27 |
An interview with MarieFrance Alderman | 43 |
The Crying Game meets The Bodyguard | 61 |
5 Censorship from Left and Right | 73 |
Beyond the patriarchal phallic imaginary | 85 |
Black pagan or white colonizer? | 96 |
A shared passion for speaking truth | 145 |
Marketing the black underclass | 169 |
Denying black pain | 180 |
Representing the poor | 193 |
Ending Internalized racism | 202 |
The longedfor feminist manhood | 214 |
Gone but not forgotten | 231 |
Just for the joy of it | 243 |
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