Bell Hooks Quotes About Identity

• No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

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  Men, White, America

  bell hooks (2014). “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism”, p.7, Routledge

• Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of white supremacy has usually meant that subordinate groups must surrender their identities, beliefs, values, and assimilate by adopting the values and beliefs of privileged-class whites, rather than promoting racial harmony this thinking has created a fierce cultural protectionism.

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  Thinking, Race, Attachment

• La comunidad amada no se forma erradicando la diferencia, sino afirmándola, reivindicando cada uno de nosotros las identidades y legados culturales que conforman quiénes somos y cómo vivimos en el mundo.

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  Comunidad querida, Diferencias, Identidad

• Las personas con una autoestima sana no necesitan crear identidades fingidas.

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  Self Esteem, Integrity, People

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

• Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.

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  Believe, Vision, Criticism

• Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.

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  Mean, Community, Black

• Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.

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  Fashion, White, Black

  Bell Hooks (2004). “We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity”, p.12, Psychology Press

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