Book Study: Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice, bell hooks

Book Study

Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice
hooks, bell
Writing Beyond Race: 36 pages; 11,126 words, many visuals

1. Introduction

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Imperialist, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy

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white supremacy has little meaning in the contemporary United States, that it is too harsh a reality to be relevant to discussions of race and racism.
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white supremacy is the covert ideology that is the silent cause of harm and trauma.
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Overracializing whiteness then made it seem as though white skin and the privileges that it allows were the primary issues, and not the white supremacist ways of thinking and acting that are expressed by folks of all skin colors. It may very well be that the re - centering of whiteness has helped silence the necessary theories and practice that are needed if we are as a nation to truly learn how to be rid of racism.

Writing Beyond Race:  36 pages; 11,126 words, many visuals