Killing Rage

One of our country s premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must go hand in hand But whereas many women have been recognized for their writing on gender politics, the female voice has been all but locked out of the public discourse on race Killing Rage speaks to this imbalance These twenty three essays are written from a black and feminist perspective, and they tackle the bitter difficulties of racism by envisioning a world without it They address a spectrum of topics having to do with race and racism in the United States psychological trauma among African Americans friendship between black women and white women anti Semitism and racism and internalized racism in movies and the media And in the title essay, hooks writes about the killing rage the fierce anger of black people stung by repeated instances of everyday racism finding in that rage a healing source of love and strength and a catalyst for positive change.bell hooks is Distinguished Professor of English at City College of New York She is the author of the memoir Bone Black as well as eleven other books She lives in New York City. New Download Killing Rage author bell hooks For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Ultimately misguided, hyperbolic, self serving, and blinded by bitterness What s most telling about this author is that she has made it impossible to discuss her without addressing her pretension for those not in the know, she insists her name be spelled all lower case According to her, this is meant to be a sign of her humility, a sign that the author s identity is unimportant of course it achieves the opposite effect, placing intense importance on her, taking something that is normally ta Ultimately misguided, hyperbolic, self serving, and blinded by bitterness What s most telling about this author is that she has made it impossible to discuss her without addressin...A black person unashamed of her rage, using it as a catalyst to develop critical consciousness, to come to full decolonized self actualization, had no real place in the existing social structure This book took a while to read because it is dense and difficult Part of the difficulty, no surprise, is being confronted with places I didn t see as embodying racism because I am part of the white dominant group For instance, integration mind blown But the other part of the difficulty is the cu A black person unashamed of her rage, using it as a catalyst to develop critical consciousness, to come to full decolonized self actualization, had no real place in the existing social structure This book took a while to read because it is dense and difficult Part of the difficulty, no surprise, is being confronted with places I didn t see as embodying racism because I am part of the white dominant group For instance, integration mind blown But ...bell hooks was an amazing black feminist activist and this confrontational book has her at her peak of militancy but always articulate and balanced in her views Given the current political climate, a great book to discover or go back and re readBy rights I should not be giving this any rating because I did not read it all I borrowed this book now and skimmed it because I d never seen anything by bell hooks and wanted to just look at it to see what folks are talking about when they raise her name Dense, delicious seasoned reasoning, so hard to back away from, to turn one s back on Any objection one might raise to giving African Americans their due and proper place in the growth and history of this country, she will have a calmly deva By rights I should not be giving this any rating because I did not read it all I borrowed this book now and skimmed it because I d never seen anything by bell hooks and wanted to just look at it to see what folks are talking about when they raise her name Dense, delicious seasoned reasoning, so hard to back away from, to turn one s back on Any objection one might raise to giving African Americans their due and proper place in the growth and history of this country, she will have a calmly devastating critique and counter argument I love those sente...After watching the George Zimmerman trial, while at the same time working with a disabled African American man and his family who was brutalized by the Rochester Police Department, I needed some inspiration and analysis about race and white su...hooks has a real talent for conveying complex theory in highly readable prose In killing rage, she argues convincingly that ignoring race doesn t make one a non racist person neither a non racist white person, nor a person of colo...Hooks says, White rage is acceptable, can be both expressed and condoned, but black rage has no place and everyone knows it 15 First, I just love her confidence as a writer and everyone knows it and second, her position here is important Black rage needs a place, a public forum...The opening essay is very much worth reading, though not for the reasons Bell Hooks offers Think of her as a Nabokovian unreliable narrator, and it s both sad and hilarious It s the story of a ticket mix up on a plane A white man has a ticket for a seat, and due to some error, a black woman believes the seat is hers, but her ticket says otherwise To Hooks, all the whites who observe what happens are complicit in racism because they don t ignore the ticket and accept the black woman s word.It The opening essay is very much worth reading, though not for the reasons Bell Hooks offers Think of her as a Nabokovian unreliable narrator, and it s both sad and hilarious It s the story of a ticket mix up on a plane A white man has a ticket for a seat, and due to some error, a black woman believes the seat is hers, but her ticket says otherwise To Hooks, all the whites who observe what happens are complicit in racism because they don t ignore t...This book gave me the vocabulary to finally describe the pain and anger I have felt in my past.This is definitely not easy or light reading It has given me much to consider when it comes to my own personal views and values It s encouraged me to expand my thoughts on both racism, feminism and the intersection of them both.

• English
• 18 May 2018
bell hooks
• Paperback
• 288 pages
• 0805050272
• bell hooks
• Killing Rage