BELL HOOKS- INTERSECTIOANLITY

Question 1

Can you summarise BELL HOOKS’s main ideas?

Answer 1

1. Highlights the marginalisation of black female experincence in academia and culture.
2. Highlights the legacy of slavery on contemporary representations of black women in mainstream media.
3. Highlights how black mascunility has come to represent the black community as a whole.
4. Media representations reinforce systems of oppression.
5. Intersectional media has the capacity to challenge oppressive systems.

Question 2

What is intersectionality?

Answer 2

• A sociological analytical framework for understanding how the oppression of different social and political identities can result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege.

Question 3

Intersectional media:

Answer 3

Products that purposefully include or allude to an intersectional viewpoint