bell hooks

White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy

I think what bell hooks said about this is that this is an "interlocking system of domination". It's institutional. From what I understood this is just how the white people are kept in the middle of the discussion of racism...But that this doesn't only just affect black people and how white people treat them... that it's other ethnic backgrounds being mistreated.

Examples for popular culture

When bell hooks is talking about the popular culture, I think she is saying that there is so much that Hollywood makes that they don't think the underlying message is that important..that a "fuck me till i die" picture or even sentence will make any sort of impact on the crowd. People do take it to an extent...it affects us and younger people that this is okay and this deprives women more than anything (from seeing that clip of the movie!) not cool.

This represents a postmodern lens of interpretation by what we see today and how people represent themselves creating a certain type of image and stereotype.

Motivated Representations

Same with how the movie "Smoke" portrayed a black boy being a thief. Why would the director make him black? He had no answer for that question! He would put a black man as a thief because society thinks of black people as rebellious, gangster, thug like people because of the representations they make in Hollywood about them. They portray African American people to be like that, therefore giving the director a better reason to put a teenage young black man as a thief.