Critical Perspectives on bell hooks by Davidson, Maria del Guadalupe -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

The Critical Social Thought Series Contents Series Editor’s Introduction

References

Acknowledgments Introduction

Critical Pedagogy and Praxis The Dynamics of Race and Gender Spirituality and Love Notes

I Critical Pedagogy and Praxis

1 Borderlines

Prelude bell hooks and Critical Pedagogy Imperialism Rushes In: Class Exploitation, Patriarchal Power, and Racism Toward a Feminist Praxis Revisiting Class Towards a Pedagogy of Revolution Notes

2 Engaging Whiteness and the Practice of Freedom

Notes

3 Teaching to Transgress

Notes

4 bell hooks, White Supremacy, and the Academy

On the Personal Narrative On Feminism On Postmodernism

Four of hooks’s Insights On “White Supremacy” in the Academy

On Rejecting the Paradigm of Servant-Served On Affirming a Presence as a Black Body in the White Academy On Overturning the Colonized Mind On Resisting a White Commodification of Blackness

Suggestions to Effect Social and Institutional Change in the Academy

On Radical People Working Collaboratively On Developing Appropriate Curricula and Pedagogy On Creating Space in the Academy

Conclusion Notes

5 Engaging bell hooks

The Role of Narrative in Self-Actualization Common Goals—Creating Communities of Solidarity across Differences Sustaining Hope: Knowing That It Matters Conclusion Notes

6 bell hooks’s Children’s Literature

Notes

II The Dynamics of Race and Gender

7 Talking Back

Toward a Phenomenology of Black Feminist Consciousness Notes

8 bell hooks and the Move from Marginalized Other to Radical Black Subject

Commodified Otherness: What’s Marginalization Got To Do With It? Radical Black Subjectivity Notes

9 The Ethics of Blackness

Incommensurability of Postmodernism and Blackness The Origins of Deconstruction as Ethics hooks On Why Postmodernism Is Relevant to Blackness

hooks on Essentialism hooks’s Ethical Construction of Blackness Postmodernism and Blackness Postmodern Blackness Black Subjectivity

The Decolonization of the Mind Conclusion Notes

10 The Specter of Race

The Problem of Race Essentialism and the Social Construction of Race The Deconstruction of Race and Postmodern Blackness The Reconstruction of Race and Revolutionary Blackness Notes

III Spirituality and Love

11 Love Matters

Notes

Notes

13 “Revolutionary Interdependence”

Notes

14 Toward a Love Ethic

Introduction Absent Love Broken Spirits Love Ethic Conclusion Notes

Contributors Index