Introduction: The Heartbeat of Cultural Revolution -- 1. Power to the Pussy: We Don't Wannabe Dicks in Drag -- 2. Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat -- 3. What's Passion Got To Do With It?: An Interview with Marie-France Alderman -- 4. Seduction and Betrayal: The Crying Game Meets The Bodyguard -- 5. Censorship from Left and Right -- 6. Talking Sex: Beyond the Patriarchal Phallic Imaginary -- 7. Camille Paglia: "Black" Pagan or White Colonizer? -- 8. Dissident Heat: Fire with Fire -- 9. Katie Roiphe: A Little Feminist Excess Goes a Long Way -- 10. Seduced by Violence No More -- 11. Gangsta Culture -- Sexism and Misogyny: Who Will Take the Rap? -- 12. Ice Cube Culture: A Shared Passion for Speaking Truth -- 13. Spending Culture: Marketing the Black Underclass -- 14. Spike Lee Doing Malcolm X: Denying Black Pain -- 15. Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor -- 16. Back to Black: Ending Internalized Racism -- 17. Malcolm X: The Longed-for Feminist Manhood.
Summary
"Bell hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, is also one of our most clear-eyed and penetrating analysts of culture. Outlaw culture--the culture of the margin, of women, of the disenfranchised, of racial and other minorities--lies at the heart of bell hooks' America. Raising her powerful voice against racism and other forms of oppression in the United States, hooks unlocks the politics of representation and the meaning of that politics for and in our time. Outlaw Culture gives us hooks on many of the most important subjects of the contemporary scene, from date rape, censorship, and ideas of race and beauty, to gangsta rap, the dilemmas of feminism, and the rise of black intellectuals. Using the mix of essays and sometimes highly personal dialogues for which she is well known, hooks takes on Spike Lee and Naomi Wolf, Malcolm X and Madonna, Camille Paglia, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ice Cube, and the films The Bodyguard and The Crying Game. She speaks movingly about male violence against women, about black self-hatred, and about the ways an oppressive society creates its outlaws. In each case, hooks affirms a vision of intellectual and political engagement, foreseeing the possibility of active, critical participation in movements for radical social change. Outlaw Culture speaks clearly and strongly for the need to connect the production of knowledge with transformative democratic values."--Pub. desc
