TY - JOUR
T1 - Moving beyond Niceness
T2 - Reading bell hooks into the Radical Potential for the Discipline
AU - Moffett-Bateau, Alex
AU - Jackson, Jenn M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In honor of bell hooks’ legacy, we engage with her Black feminist scholarship to parse out what she offers to the study of Black politics. We explore the ways hooks rebuffed compulsory calls for niceness and obligatory congeniality via respectability politics. By interrogating the politics of the Black middle class, we locate hooks’ intellectual works as a repudiation of a “politics of niceness” that seeks to maintain the violent status quo of white capitalist heteropatriarchy. We then draw out why the rejection of a politics of niceness matters within broader discussions of race, power, politics, and oppression.
AB - In honor of bell hooks’ legacy, we engage with her Black feminist scholarship to parse out what she offers to the study of Black politics. We explore the ways hooks rebuffed compulsory calls for niceness and obligatory congeniality via respectability politics. By interrogating the politics of the Black middle class, we locate hooks’ intellectual works as a repudiation of a “politics of niceness” that seeks to maintain the violent status quo of white capitalist heteropatriarchy. We then draw out why the rejection of a politics of niceness matters within broader discussions of race, power, politics, and oppression.
KW - Black feminism
KW - Black politics
KW - bell hooks
KW - class
KW - race and ethnicity
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U2 - 10.1080/1554477X.2022.2075681
DO - 10.1080/1554477X.2022.2075681
M3 - Comment/Debate/Erratum
AN - SCOPUS:85131056714
SN - 1554-477X
JO - Journal of Women, Politics and Policy
JF - Journal of Women, Politics and Policy
ER -