Representing the Poor
Aleeyah Norvell
Dawn Hackett
English-11011-093
29 August, 2013
Representing the Poor In Bell Hooks; “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the poor; Hooks writes about issues involving the higher class rather than those suffering from poverty. The issues that she addresses are assumptions made about the poor, how poor individuals are viewed, and how they are represented on television; she shows and interprets how poverty affects the daily lives of individuals.
Hooks first argument involves a false accusation made about poor people from her life experience. She goes back to her college years and she explains how her teachers and classmates displayed poverty as being lazy, dishonest, and unworthy (paragraph 5), and this was also very shocking because growing up for her she had always learned that there was no difference between personal integrity and poverty because person who is hardworking and is still poor consist of values of a person who won’t lean on material standards.
In addition, Hook states that she was ferrous about the false accusations of the poor because individuals would consistently say poor people had no values of her poor household that made her the great writer she is today, and gave her good values. I feel like all these assumptions lead to one big factor which is how the contemporary popular culture in the United States rarely shows the poor for what they can really be, and that is a successful person. Everyone starts somewhere even if it’s at the bottom. I think Hook feels as though if we don’t change how poverty is viewed fast or realize how it is being misinterpreted, then no one will ever be challenged to face
Dawn Hackett
English-11011-093
29 August, 2013
Representing the Poor In Bell Hooks; “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the poor; Hooks writes about issues involving the higher class rather than those suffering from poverty. The issues that she addresses are assumptions made about the poor, how poor individuals are viewed, and how they are represented on television; she shows and interprets how poverty affects the daily lives of individuals.
Hooks first argument involves a false accusation made about poor people from her life experience. She goes back to her college years and she explains how her teachers and classmates displayed poverty as being lazy, dishonest, and unworthy (paragraph 5), and this was also very shocking because growing up for her she had always learned that there was no difference between personal integrity and poverty because person who is hardworking and is still poor consist of values of a person who won’t lean on material standards.
In addition, Hook states that she was ferrous about the false accusations of the poor because individuals would consistently say poor people had no values of her poor household that made her the great writer she is today, and gave her good values. I feel like all these assumptions lead to one big factor which is how the contemporary popular culture in the United States rarely shows the poor for what they can really be, and that is a successful person. Everyone starts somewhere even if it’s at the bottom. I think Hook feels as though if we don’t change how poverty is viewed fast or realize how it is being misinterpreted, then no one will ever be challenged to face