Morehouses Crossroads Has Nothing To Do With Ghetto Gear or Cross-Dressing Oct 21, 2009
(I doubt that a new undergraduate dress code would be appealing to the likes of Bell Hooks or Cornel West. Nor will it beef up the resources that one would expect to find on the campus of a purportedly elite college (such as better library holdings, laboratories or facilities). (Slate)
Anarchist Theory Reading List Sep 10, 2009
This short reading list of some of the more accessible works of anarchist theory includes both contemporary thinkers like Noam Chomsky and Bell Hooks, and some of the earliest anarchist thinkers like Mikhail Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who have seen their most important works reprinted in English in the last several decades. Anarchist Theory Suggested Reading List. (Suite101.com)
COMMENT: Man In The Mirror Jun 30, 2009
It is the lament of minorities everywhere as they struggle to "resist representation and construct an oppositional gaze" as African-American writer bell hooks (sic) described the visual discrimination of racial politics. Lalthanhawla and his flat-featured brothers and sisters from the north-east might agree with hooks' complaint that African-Americans "experience our collective crisis within the realm of the image". (India Times, India)
