Source: All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Source: Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Slater and Zack are in a serious discussion by the lockers. Slater points to himself. The caption reads, “We need to rethink our notions of manhood and womanhood.”
Source: Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Zack is in the locker room holding a microphone to his mouth. He is carrying recording equipment, and he is addressing a girl with a hand on her hip, a look of disbelief on her face (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “White people benefit from the privileges accrued from racist exploitation, past and present, and are therefore accountable for changing and transforming white supremacy and racism.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Kelly and Jessie face each other in a serious conversation. The caption reads, “Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy.”
Source: Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie and Slater sit beside each other in a booth at a public restaurant. Slater is grinning at Jessie, squeezing her cheeks with his left hand. She is looking at him in annoyance. The caption reads, “The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression.”
Source: Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Kelly, a white woman, sits next to Lisa, a black woman, in a theater. Kelly is glancing at Lisa with a slight smile on her face. Lisa continues staring forward with an expression of fatigue and annoyance on her face (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “Black women felt they were asked to choose between a black movement that primarily served the interests of black male patriarchs and a women’s movement which primarily served the interests of racist white women.”
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie and Slater listen to Lisa who is pointing at herself. The caption reads, “Our struggle for liberation has significance only if it takes place within a feminist movement that has as its fundamental goal the liberation of all people.”
Source: Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Source: Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Kelly, Lisa, Jessie and Slater are standing in front of the lockers, looking toward Zack as he speaks. Everyone has solemn expressions on their faces (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.”
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie and Slate look up from the books contemplatively. The caption reads, “Consider the possibility that to love Blackness is dangerous in a white supremacist culture- so threatening, so serious a breach in the fabric of the social order that the punishment is death.”
Source: Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks
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