Ebook: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a 'powerful site for intervention, challenge and change'. And intervene, challenge and change is what hooks does best.;Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: The heartbeat of cultural revolution -- 1 Power to the Pussy: We don't wannabe dicks in drag -- 2 Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat -- 3 What's Passion Got To Do With It?: An interview with Marie-France Alderman -- 4 Seduction and Betrayal: The Crying Game meets The Bodyguard -- 5 Censorship from Left and Right -- 6 Talking Sex: Beyond the patriarchal phallic imaginary -- 7 Camille Paglia: "Black" pagan or white colonizer? -- 8 Dissident Heat: Fire with fire -- 9 Katie Roiphe: A little feminist excess goes a long way -- 10 Seduced by Violence No More -- 11 Gangsta Culture-Sexism and Misogyny: Who will take the rap? -- 12 Ice Cube Culture: A shared passion for speaking truth -- 13 Spending Culture: Marketing the black underclass -- 14 Spike Lee Doing Malcolm X: Denying black pain -- 15 Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the poor -- 16 Back to Black: Ending Internalized racism -- 17 Malcolm X: The longed-for feminist manhood -- 18 Columbus: Gone but not forgotten -- 19 Moving Into and Beyond Feminism: Just for the joy of it -- 20 Love as the Practice of Freedom -- Index.