Bell Hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom proposes an engaged pedagogy to handle the overwhelming sense of boredom‚ disinterest‚ and apathy that teachers and students feel about the learning experience. According to the author‚ the feeling of student alienation in the educational institutions can be traced to discriminatory‚ racist‚ and classist policies present in these settings. Hooks (1993) leverages on her past experiences to show the impact of race and gender on
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Telling Woman`s life is one of the most interesting class that I learned from. It changed my thought about being a woman and how women are valuable. I read different stories about what is the meaning of feminist‚ how woman suffered because of race‚ being a female and distinguishing between her and the man in social life‚ and how it is very important for women to express their idea and their feeling. Being a woman from different culture‚ I should think about the meaning of feminist and how to explain
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evident in Jerry Mander’s essay “The Walling of Awareness” and bell hooks’ “Touching the Earth.” In “The Walling of Awareness‚” Mander examines how the construction of big cities has impaired people’s relationship with nature. Similarly in bell hooks’ “Touching the Earth”‚ she argues that when the blacks migrated to the North they suffered both physically and mentally from their lost relationship with the land. Although Mander and hooks agree that we are disconnected to nature‚ both examine these losses
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This Ain’t Chicago is Zandria F. Robinson’s study of the relationship between location and race‚ class‚ and gender. She identifies the regional differences‚ specifically of the African-Americans living in the south and north. The study analytically separates the southern blacks from their fictive kin and whites they correlate with in order to explore the differences in regional identities. The study took place in Memphis because Zandria believes that it “sits at the physical‚ temporal‚ and epistemological
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Who am I Without Him? The author of “So I ain’t no Good Girl”‚ Sharon Flake‚ develops the characters in a way I find realistic and original. It is told in a first person view of the main character; although‚ we don’t know her name‚ we know her boyfriend’s name‚ Raheem. He is known for his good looks and muscles. They have been together for two years now‚ but he treats her as though she is nobody. The narrator has an attitude against other girls‚ because Raheem tends to stare. When she finds him
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The Forgiving Bad Girl (Critique on So I Ain’t No Good Girl by Sharon Flake) “So I Ain’t No Good Girl “is a short story from a collection of short stories called “Who Am I without Him”‚ and “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” is about your average bad girl. The Author‚ Sharon Flake‚ writes a story about a girl who thinks she’ll be nobody without her boyfriend‚ Raheem. The narrator in “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” is a girl who thinks of herself only as a bad girl. This specific bad girl obeys her boyfriend
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oppression [are…] built into the structure of society. Inequality‚ in other words‚ is structured socially” (Zin and Dill 4). What Zin and Dill are stating is reiterating Sojourners Truth speech‚ they capture the same essence. It can be interpreted in Ain’t I a Women?‚ that Sojourner Truth believes that women during the time period of slavery are only being oppressed to do the fact that over previous years‚ people grew up with the idea of slavery in their mind. By having such ideology at such a young age
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Wells would’ve been comrades in arms (maybe no gun for bell hooks!) if they were contemporaries. I can’t help but wonder if hooks studied Ida B. Wells as she developed her feminist theories. There are many‚ many similarities between these two women in terms of feminist theory and their work against ideologies of oppression and domination. As I read through Wells’ autobiography‚ I was constantly reminded of bell hooks. For example‚ when bell hooks talks about her feminist theory‚ she places emphasis
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Bells hooks ’Marginality as a Site of Resistance’‚is an engaging and powerful comment on the solicitude for all those colonised on the perimeter of society.To identify as‚ but not be defined as‚ the marginalised. To use this site as an advance point to gain a formative viewpoint and destabilize the deep structures of power and cultural domination. Mona Hatoums work deals with identity in the context of displacement‚ gender and memory. Through Hatoums artworks ’Recollection’ (1995) and Grater Divide
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Cheap Trick recording the song many people know at least one version. However the original version has a special something about it that helps it stand out from the many covers. The song has an enticing hook‚ interesting historical context‚ and is an earworm that was with me for several days after I first heard the song. The song begins immediately with Domino’s unique style of singing and the lyrics‚ “You made me cry.” He stops singing and the instrumental part
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