bell hooks writings have been touchstones for major debates in the «culture wars», fostering insight into many central questions in communication studies. Her work is vital to students and scholars who explore the ways in which media shape our sense of our selves, our roles, and those with whom we interact. This book provides readers with a measured, contextualized introduction to how hooks writings on media and culture enhance our understanding of key concepts in communication. hooks insistence on focusing our attention on the workings of power and the impact of history and her willingness to explore connections between individual and group experiences have produced provocative, fruitful conjectures about media and culture.
bell hooks writings have been touchstones for major debates in the «culture wars», fostering insight into many central questions in communication studies. This book provides readers with a measured, contextualized introduction to how hooks writings on media and culture enhance our understanding of key concepts in communication.
Squires (journalism, Northwestern U.) presents a brief introduction to bell hooks. Hooks is known for flaunting scholarly and academic convention to make several different points about the production and social marking of knowledge. Squires considers elements of her biography, her challenge to Euro-centric feminism, her discovery of radical pedagogy, her musings on media and power. An epilogue focuses on how bell hooks can inculcate better, more egalitarian and yet critical scholarly dispositions. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Contents: An Introduction to bell hooks Deconstructing Dominator
Culture Democracy, Civility, and bell hooks Media, Power, and
Intersections Reception, Resistance, and Recovery Education As a Tool for
Democracy Notes on Revisiting Critical Theorist bell hooks.
Catherine R. Squires (PhD, Northwestern University) is the inaugural John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity, and Equality at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Dispatches from the Color Line (2007) and African Americans and the Media (2009) and co-editor of The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign (2010). She has published articles on media and identity in many journals, including Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication Theory, and the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics
