[Originally a tumblr repost] violinphoenix: bell hooks on Spike Lee Waiting to Exhale… sold and marketed in ways that suggest this is a black film… this is a film about black women, this is gonna be for black people. In fact, this was a typical hollywood shitty, uninteresting film, with a script written by white…
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bell hooks on the complicity of mass media
Since much of the pedagogy of domination is brought to us in the United States by mass media, particularly via television, I rarely watch TV. No one, no matter how intelligent and skillful at critical thinking, is protected against the subliminal suggestions that imprint themselves on our unconscious brain if we are watching hours and hours of television. In the United States television has become primarily a series of spectacles that perpetuate and maintain the ideology of imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
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like black butterflies 