Wednesday 15 February 2012

Bell Hooks


Bell Hooks is an American author, she was born in September 25,1952. She studied sociology and her main focus was on race, gender and class. She became a distinguished professor of English at city college of New York and started with feminist theory then became the author of 14 books of commentary and autobiography. hooks had writen many quates, some of her quates were
In her video cultural criticism and transformation she talked about the book she wrote about how important it is and why we should study popular culture. and that much she had always focused on thinking and writing critically in general and about the practice of education in peticular. She aslo advised people to think critically as well. one of the most important things she talked about is how media takes place in which it makes the picture of black people look bad in American society.
“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.” and
“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

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