Episode 139: bell hooks on Racism/Sexism
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2016
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
On Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981) and Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992, Intro, Ch. 3, 11). How do these pernicious forces interact? hooks describes black women as having been excluded from both mainstream historical feminism (led by white women) and black civil rights struggles (permeated with patriarchy), and this "silencing" creates challenges for self-actualization and social justice. The solution: media critique of stereotyped images and personally connecting to a historical narrative of liberation. With guest Myisha Cherry, host of the UnMute Podcast.
End song: "Stories" by Mark Lint and Steve Petrinko (2011).
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| 0:40.2 | Our question for episode 139 is something like, |
| 0:42.8 | what's the relationship between sexism and racism? |
| 0:45.4 | Or maybe, how can we mitigate the effects in our psyches of historical racism and sexism? |
| 0:50.4 | And we read some works by Bell Hux, |
| 0:52.4 | aint I a woman from 1981, and a little bit of Black looks, |
| 0:55.8 | race and representation from 1992. |
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| 1:02.5 | This is Mark Linton Meyer, relinquishing my role in the patriarchy in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:07.2 | Hmm. |
| 1:08.1 | This is Seth Paskin in Austin, Texas. |
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