Bell Hooks Flashcards
affect theory is attributed to whom?
to the psychologist Silvan Tomkins
what does affect mean?
The word affect, as used in Tomkins theory, specifically refers to the “biological portion of emotion”; that is, it refers to “hard-wired, preprogrammed, genetically transmitted mechanisms that exist in each of us”
what is the meaning of “de jure”?
“concerning law”, as contrasted with de facto, which means “concerning fact”
Who is Jim Crow
Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life.
What is Cybersectarianism?
it is the phenomenon of new religious movements that rely primarily on the Internet for text distribution, recruitment, and information-sharing.
Community is not a given but a process, an achievement: to borrow Stuart Hall’s well-known formulation, it suggests that cultural identity is …….
‘a matter of “becoming” as well as “being”’
