bell hooks Key Points

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    • understanding the use and values of private and public disguise and identities
    • Disagrees with Rodriguez because he traded his culture; he said he had to trade but hooks say you don’t have to trade and change for white male standards Paragraph 19 says that Rodriguez didn’t have to make that choice and the hegemonic system made him do it
    • Hegemonic values system = white, male, judicial Christian you don’t need to affirm the hegemonic system
    • Need to name and affirm and document the counter hegemonic value system: black, working-lower class, feminist
    • Paragraph 17 doesn’t want to romanticize effort would dismiss conflict
    • had external and internal resistances
    • working to maintain and strengthen ties with oppressed groups and family

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