Racism is an ongoing issue, white racist people believe that it is easy to unsee blackpeople if that is their desire, if they do not want to be seen by the dark other (Hooks 340). This isin a white supremacist society where they can imagine without being “judged” that they areinvisible to black people because they have authority and more power that has been historicallyclaimed (Hooks 340). Hooks also discusses that there may not even be a representation in theblack imagination according to some white people. They believe that whatever their imaginationis, is what they want to become visible. “Socialized to believe the fantasy, that whitenessrepresents the goodness and all that is benign and non-threatening (Hooks 340)”, this is believedto be said by black people according to white people. Of course, this is just an assumption andwhat they want to believe or assume because that is how they want it to be.Black people stay silent and continue to wear the mask and ignore the racism. They staysilent about the representations of whiteness in the black imagination. Stereotypes and racialapartheid are the major representations of whiteness in the black imagination. Furthermore,whiteness does not believe that black can have a perception or analysis of whiteness. They areseen as strange or the “other”.Bibliography:Hobbs, Margaret, and Carla Rice.Gender and Women’s Studies: Critical Terrain, 2nded. Editedby Margaret Hobbs & Carla Rice. Women’s Press, 2018, pp. 109-113Hooks, Bell. “Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination.”Displacing Whiteness, 1997,pp. 338–346.
Week 8 : Nation and ColonizationAnthony Tang, Anamika Sharma, and Prayanshu Singla• Lee Maracle, Ravensong (Novel)Chapter 1A ship came to Stacey’s indgeneous village and fifty young women were sent inside. The womencame back with diseases. Stacey attends Nora’s funeral, a little girl asked her mother a funnyquestion, stacey was laughing, half the crowd was coughing, and the priest sped up his dronewhen the body was being lowered into the hole. Stacey remembered being at funerals filled with“passionate grief”. “Funerals of beloved ones in which grandchildren let go deep wailing soundswhich seemed to come from the centre of the earth itself” (p9). She says how “Today there was
only the feeling of relief and resignation”(p9).Stacey knew that people had to say “Nora hadlived a full life” to themselves because no one wanted to confront the truth that “life here at theedge of the world was empty for anyone” (p4). The chapter talks about how change orcatastrophe in a humans life goes with tears and grief, and only the earth is less likely to be filledwith grief. Raven was sure that people will wake up and move to white town to fix the mess overthere if she executes this catastrophe plan. Stacey looked hard at the clothes of the villagers whenshe went to the white funeral of her school's chum grandmother. People wore black but she foundsomething seductive about the black surge of men’s suits matching their leather shoes andwomen’s “wide-brimmed fancy veils and high heeled shoes” (p5). Another difference in the
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