Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

by hooks; bell

• ISBN13: 9780415389587
• ISBN10: 0415389585
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-05-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

bell hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, is one of our most clear-eyed and penetrating analysts of culture.Outlaw Culture-- the culture of the margin, of women, of the disenfranchised, of racial and other minorities -- lies at the heart of bell hooks' America. Raising her powerful voice against racism and other forms of oppression in the United States, hooks unlocks the politics of representation and the meaning of that politics for and in our lives. Using the mix of essays and highly personal dialogues for which she is well known,Outlaw Culturegives us hooks on Spike Lee and Naomi Wolf, Malcolm X and Madonna, Camille Paglia, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ice Cube, and such films asThe BodyguardandThe Crying Game.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The heartbeat of cultural revolution	1	(127)
1 Power to the Pussy: We don't wannabe dicks in drag	9	(18)
2 Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat	27	(16)
3 What's Passion Got To Do With It?: An interview with Marie-France Alderman	43	(18)
4 Seduction and Betrayal: The Crying Game meets The Bodyguard	61	(12)
5 Censorship from Left and Right	73	(12)
6 Talking Sex: Beyond the patriarchal phallic imaginary	85	(11)
7 Camille Paglia: "Black" pagan or white colonizer?	96	(10)
8 Dissident Heat: Fire with fire	106	(12)
9 Katie Roiphe: A little feminist excess goes a long way	118	(10)
10 Seduced by Violence No More	128	(6)
11 Gangsta Culture—Sexism and Misogyny: Who will take the rap?	134	(11)
12 Ice Cube Culture: A shared passion for speaking truth	145	(24)
13 Spending Culture: Marketing the black underclass	169	(11)
14 Spike Lee Doing Malcolm X: Denying black pain	180	(13)
15 Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the poor	193	(9)
16 Back to Black: Ending Internalized racism	202	(12)
17 Malcolm X: The longed-for feminist manhood	214	(17)
18 Columbus: Gone but not forgotten	231	(12)
19 Moving Into and Beyond Feminism: Just for the joy of it	243	(46)
20 Love as the Practice of Freedom	289	(10)
Index	299