POSTED ON BEHALF OF LORI BALDWIN The following thoughts I recorded after reading the Hooks piece before class on Friday: As I started to read the Hooks piece on “Postmodern Blackness” I appreciated the statement that most of the intellectual discussion and debate “is dominated primarily by the voices of white male intellectuals and/or academic [...]
What can I say about bell hooks? I don’t know if it was the fact that I tried to start reading her work at midnight or if she is always that difficult to push through, but I had a somewhat rough time picking out everything she said. Before this reading her piece, I never really [...]
As played out to its hyperbolic end in the “Postmodernese” section of Postmodernism for Beginners, it seems like this body of theory encounters serious problems with its language which, as bell hooks points out in “Postmodern Blackness,” can often degrade into a “discursive practice….dominated primarily by voices of white male intellectuals and/or academic elites who [...]
