Where We Stand
Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman s reflection personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them. Best Read Books Where We Stand by bell hooks – kino-fada.fr bell hooks shares her upbringing and personal history with us in this book, and for that reason it is worth savoring She has a very conversational style in this book she is not writing a polemic But she is teaching This book reminds us that America does indeed have a class hierarchy, and indicates how that plays out for citizens hooks reminds us that in a culture where money is the measure of value, it is believed that everything and everybody can be bought But money is not the standard wh bell hooks shares her upbringing and personal history with us in this book, and for that reason it is worth savoring She has a very conversational style in this book she is not writing a polemic But she is teaching This book reminds us that America does indeed have a class hierarchy, and indicates how that plays out for citizens hooks reminds us that in a culture where money is the measure of value, it is believed that everything and everybody can be bought But money is not the standard where other values areimportant Solidarity with the poor is the only path that can lead out nation back to a vision of community that can effectively challenge and eliminate violence and exploitation Acquiring wealth or items of value make us fearful that someone will take those things away from us hooks herself had such an experience, ...I really loved this book but I have enjoyed all of her books so far Class is a particularly interesting subject for someone like hooks to tackle, as being both black and female means that there are really good reasons why she might not want to talk about class at all It isn t just Marx that says that class issues are key to fundamentally changing society, but even someone like Luhmann also claims that all other forms of disadvantage can be overcome without fundamentally changing society bu I really loved this book but I have enjoyed all of her books so far Class is a particularly interesting subject for someone like hooks to tackle, as being both black and female means that there are really good reasons why she might not want to talk about class at all It isn t just Marx that says that class issues are key to fundamentally changing society, but even someone like Luhmann also claims that all other forms of disadvantage can be overcome without fundamentally changing society but to change the class relations in society requires a complete change in how society works So, someone that can see the gross disadvantages presented to women and to blacks by society might not be terribly keen to hear, particularly not from white men, that these issues are very much secondary and will be solved anyway once the real work of overcoming class distinctions is achieved...Unfortunately, the incisive analyses of bell hooks earlier books are replaced in this one by cliched, simplistic and repetitive statements and digressive personal narratives I recommend this to readers who haven t given much thought to class and to its relationship to race in the US, but otherw...bell hooks makes a lot of important points and connections in these essays on class, as well as on the intersections between class, race, and gender However, I found it rather repetitive since each chapter was apparently written as a separate essay it felt as if the same thing was said many times through out the different essays Within each essay, I sometimes felt that the writing meandered and it was difficult to follow the train of thought at times This was my first book by bell hooks ...This may be one of the most frustrating books I ve read in a long time I was eager to read this as bell hooks is one of my favorite authors and the topic of class hits close to home, but this was just awful hooks makes grand postulations throughout the entire text with pretty much no data citations I m not exaggerating Data is seemingly not necessary or inconsequential even though the author is making broad claims about the U.S population at large I m not saying everything needed data, bu This may be one of the most frustrating books I ve read in a long time I was eager to read this as bell hooks is one of my favorite authors and the topic of class hits close to home, but this was just awful hooks makes grand postulations throughout the entire text with pretty much n...I confess I was looking forward to this like chocolate cake, been a bit blue lately, feeling all out of place in that way you do when you come from dirt poor and somehow end up doing a PhD, because in the academic us and them , you know you come from the them and proud of it to And so you get that wtf am I doing feeling and I confess I read this not looking for answers everyone has to struggle for on their own, but a little solace and shared understanding And I did find that, so much ring I confess I was looking forward to this like chocolate cake, been a bit blue lately, feeling all out of place in that way you do when you come from dirt poor and somehow end up doing a PhD, because in the academic us and them , you know you come from the them and proud of it to And so you get that wtf am I doing feeling and I confess I read this not looking for answers everyone has to struggle for on their own, but a little solace and shared understanding And I did find that, so much rings true But it wasn t what I wanted, which means perhaps I am judging unfairly I am much angrier I think Ridiculously angry som...The call to live simply is not new news It was a beacon light only a few years ago And many of us embraced and remain faithful to communitarian values Nothing threatens those valuesthan turning the poor into a predatory class to be both despised and feared p 48 Without education for critical consciousness that begins when children are entering the world of consumer capitalism, there will never be a set of basic values that can ward off the politics of predatory greed p 88 The call to live simply is not new news It was a beacon light only a few years ago And many of us embraced and remain faithful to communitarian values Nothing threatens those valuesthan turni...Her anger is palpable at times It s a great book to begin to unpack your relationship to consumerism.Though I liked this for the most part and found hooks personal narrative fascinating, I found Chapter 7, entitled The Me Me Class The Young and the Ruthless to be just another run of the mill old person complaining about the young, for example In part, youth culture s worship of wealth stems from the fact that it is easier to acquire money and goods than it is to find meaningful values and ethics, to know who you are and what you want to become, to make and sustain and friends, to know love Though I liked this for the most part and found hooks personal narrative fascinating, I found Chapter 7, entitled The Me Me Class The Young and the Ruthless to be just another run of the mill old person complaining about the young, for example In part, youth culture s worship of wealth stems from the fact that it is easier to acquire money and goods than it is to find meaningful values and ethics, to know who you are and what you want to become, to make and sustain and frie...I found Bell Hooks to be extremely repetitive and come across as angrythan analytical While pushing for equality in racial classes, she seemed to be spiteful towards the people of color who had become successful and gained any sort of wealth I would be curious to seek her opinion about Barak Obama and what it means for us to have a black president It seems that she thinks those blacks who have risen to financial wealth have somehow betrayed the solidarity of the black cause I became fu I found Bell Hooks to be extremely repetitive and co...
- English
- 13 October 2017 bell hooks
- Paperback
- 164 pages
- 041592913X
- bell hooks
- Where We Stand