Q&A 11-Selling Hot Pussy PDF

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Q&A 11- Selling Hot Pussy April 29, 2018 1. Hooks starts the essay about a racist scene because this explains and examines the contemporary representation and the image it portrays from slavery in the modern society. I believe this is true. After she enters the dessert shop and they see the black breast on display, this is saying that for anyone who can buy it, it is there. This has a lot to do with racism as when black slaves were sold, they were put on display and people looked at them as items, not actual people. This also sexualized black women as well. Making black breast as a dessert and selling them for people to eat is highly inappropriate because this again, sexualizing black women's bodies. 2. Black women become the other because there are many scenarios coming about of how black women are being seen differently. There are a few cases where people are challenging the image of black women's bodies being disgusting, but they are still sexualizing the body nonetheless. Black women are still being alienated in a way, they are seen as something else, but still not the same as others. 3. Tina Turner was a women whose image was suppose to be of a sexual nature. Although she was anything but this, Ike Turner was the man who produced this image for her, selling it to the public. This relates to the title, “Selling Hot Pussy” because that is practically what they did to Turner. They sexualized her because she was a black women and then sold this image to the public, selling her sexualization and making a profit. 4. Black women should look as white as they can. This is essentially what Hooks was describing in her paper. In magazines, dark skinned women generally do not appear because their skin is very dark and they do not look white in any way, while biracial women appear more often than not because they are closer to being white. The social norm that I see is that black women are not beautiful unless they try to emulate being white. The people in power set this social norm because they are the ones that produce the image. 5. Hooks conclusion is describing how black women technically need to escape the stereotype that they have been given and make their own representation of who they are. The post-structuralist concept is you have an object, structure, and this produces knowledge. They need to move into this post-structuralist view so that they can make new knowledge and have a more accurate representation of who they are....