![]() ![]() Hooks talks about popular culture as a site for pedagogy – this term describes an iterative relationship of learning from student to teacher and vice versa. ![]() ![]() Let’s take a look back at this work and its prevailing resonance two decades later. Her work has been adopted by feminists and cultural theorists around the world. In the seminal Cultural Transformation video series, from 1997, bell hooks explains the importance of critical thinking for women in general, as well as for racial justice. hooks argued that mainstream feminism silences experiences of race, ethnicity and class.įor the past three decades, hooks has explored the representation of race in popular culture, and how this affects social relations and public education. ![]() Her work shows how women of colour have been marginalised by power structures in society as well as by White feminists who purport to speak about the universal struggle of all women. Starting out as a literature professor, hooks would go on to challenge cultural studies in the early 1980s with books such as Ain’t I A Woman?: Black Women and Feminism and Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre. Black American cultural theorist bell hooks’ distinguished contribution to sociology has been to unearth the intersecting issues of cultural difference, race and knowledge within feminism. ![]()
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