å Thursday, October 12th, 2017

In Bell Hook’s piece, “Eating the Other”, she portrays the “other” as a sort of commodity that people of opposite races want to experience. It offers a new way of feeling and and creates an intense event for people who are looking for different pursuits. Hooks creates the idea that the “other” can allow a person to bring their wildest fantasies to life. The “other” can be thought of as the opposite race, culture, or class. The main focus is sexual experiences with the opposite race. She describes white supremacy and how their desire for the other can be exploited. These exploitations can bring an end to racial domination. Some people fear the “other” for fear of exploring other sexual desires outside of their race. The racial difference essentially marks one as the “other” and it threatens to take over due to the amount of immense pleasure one can experience from the “other.” The seduction of difference allows mostly whites to exploit their sexual desires. They are essentially shopping for sexual partners based on race and ethnicity. It seems as if the more non-white girls they can have sex with, the more accomplished they feel. White people had this imagination that non-whites had more life experience and that because they were different they were more wildly sexual. The idea of having sex with non-white people was considered transcending and it had the ability to transform your mind. This relationship to the other is considered productive because it allows people to keep an open mind and bring in an end to the division of races and cultures. These young white men who openly expressed their sexual desires for black girls, essentially made them non-racist. It was quite different from slave masters who basically violated black women to assert their dominance, these men now wanted to have sexual relations with black girls. These men exploring the realms of sexuality, hope that their world will remain the same. These men don’t realize that they will re-enter the world a different man and that these thoughts will remain and most likely get stronger.