Whiteness Bell Hooks Analysis

Whiteness was being represented in the imagination of blacks by the oppression from the whites on the black people in an attempt to compel them to forget the horrors done to them by the whites. This is intersectional to colonial events that show a comparison to both articles by the use of history.this essay will analyse bell hooks study of how whiteness is represented in the black people 's imagination and her argument that white people superior in the society have safely allowed them to imagine black to be invisible and since the power that white people historically asserted, and even collectively assert over black people, accorded them to the-the right to control the blacks view (hook 340). She argues that racist white people did not want the black people to see them for who they truly were and didn’t want them to because e the didn’t want to be seen as “dark other” so they oppressed the black folks and tried to compel them to forget what was done to them by the whites erasing all traces of their suffering during slavery and how they were treated during that that period and after by creating the concept of whiteness and not needing their own self cultures so they are not treated as servants (hook 340) hook mentions that whiteness existed without the knowledge of blackness (hooks 339) she supports this with Baldwin 's notion that the white colonizers created and conquered those the believed to be inferior. She approached intersectionality saying that white people used their superiority of class to manipulate and influence the others making them occupy the black position. She continues saying that the process of repositioning has the power to deconstruct practises of racial and possibly the terror of whiteness will disappear in the black imagination (hook 346). Hooks approach is similar to Frankenberg understanding that our experience constructs our identity and the people who dominated had an understanding of their oppression than the one who oppress them. She applies this better to privilege and oppression and believes why white women were not getting the importance of race in anyone 's experience and affect the others in their lives or the role it played in shaping u.s society. (Frankenberg 5)she explores how race gender and sexuality intersect with our daily lives, hook argues that in modern society, white and black people both believe that racism no longer exist this cancellation of whiteness as terror in the black imagination which makes the black people create the concept of whiteness and forget their self-culture and accept the idea of whites (345)how everything changes and the black now live in the bush of ghost (white) and do not know their differences and domination, imperialism,colonialism,racism have caused black people to have negative views of blackness. Hooks standpoint was how she describes the black people perspective saying embraces everything they have continues to regard whiteness with suspicion, fear and hatred. Frankenberg talks about how white people view themselves, at others, and the society and how they formed a part that …show more content…
Stereotype occurs when there is separation among people. They are an invention , a pretence that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken are not allowed (hook 341) she recalls the way the issue of whiteness was raised in black lives and how social circumstance created by racial segregation and white supremacy amongst the black community, a time when black associated whiteness with terrible and terrorizing and how whites were seen as terrorist especially those who entered the segregated space of the blacks. In relation to hooks study of whiteness, Frankenberg study were fairly similar to hooks study but also differs. both articles discussed historical event and experiences that were in favour or against the belief of whiteness. Frankenberg theory was built in dominance, and how white people she themselves as the other (frankenberg6) she disagrees that whiteness and privilege are essential to structuring race in addition, the idea of race shapes any system of differentiation and those on whom it bestows privilege as well as those it oppresses (pg 6) Racial differences and society formed colonization to put opportunity for whites in the upper class, which made it inaudible to the norm of the