killing rage: Ending Racism

296 Pages·1996·41 MB·English

by  bell hooks

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"When race politics are the issue,it is one ofthe
rare moments when white men prick up their
ears to hear what black men have to say. No one
wants to interrupt those moments ofinterracial
homo-social patriarchal bonding to hear women
speak. ...As we search as a nation for construc-
tive ways to challenge racism and white su-
premacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive
female voices gain a hearing."
—FROMTHE INTRODUCTION
One
ofour country's premier cultural and
social critics, the author ofsuch power-
ful and influential books as Ain't Ia Woman and
Black Looks, bell hooks has always maintained
that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism
must be achieved hand in hand. But whereas
many women have been recognized for their
writing on genderpolitics,the female voice has
been all but locked out ofthe public discourse
on race.
Killing Rage speaks to this imbalance.These
twenty-three essays, most ofthem new works,
are written from a black and feminist perspec-
tive, and they tackle the bitter difficulties of
racism by envisioninga world without it.hooks
defiantly creates positive plans for the future
rather than dwell in theories ofa crisis beyond
repair.
The essays here address a spectrum oftop-
ics to do with race and racism in the United
States: psychological trauma among African
Americans; friendship between black women
and white women; anti-Semitism and racism;
internalized racism in the movies and media,
hooks presents a challenge to the patriarchal
family model, explaining how it perpetuates
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KILLING RAGE
Previous books by bell hooks
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation (1994)
Teaching to Transgress:
Education as the Practice ofFreedom (1994)
Sisters ofthe Yam:
Black Women and Self-Recovery (1993)
A Woman's Mourning Song (poems) (1993)
Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992)
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (1990)
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (1989)
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981)
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ENDING RACISM
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Earlierversions ofsome ofthe chapters in this book appeared
in the following publications: "Black Beauty and Black Power:
Internalized Racism" and "Marketing Blackness: Class and
Commodification" reprinted from Outlaw Culture: Resisting
Representation, by bell hooks (New York: Routledge, 1994);
"Representations ofWhiteness in the Black Imagination"
and "Loving Blackness as Political Resistance" from Rlack Looks,
by bell hooks (Boston: South End Press, 1992), "Overcoming
White Supremacy: A Comment" from Talking Back: Thinking
Feminist, Thinking Black, by bell hooks (Boston: South End
Press, 1989), and "Keeping a Legacy ofShared Struggle"
from Z Magazine, September 1992.
Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
hooks, bell.
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Killing rage: ending racism /bell hooks. 1st ed.
p. cm.
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1. Racism United States. 2. United States Race relations.
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3. Feminism United States. 4. Afro-American women. I. Title.
E185.615.H645 1995 95-6395
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