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Alfie Corteza Assignment #6

Alfie Corteza

Professor Bullock

Assignment #6

In Bell Hook’s chapter “Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance,” the other is the non-white people, such as Asians, African-Americans, Hispanics, and people of color. In addition to that, when she mentions “Eating the Other” is a way of absorbing the culture, and values of other people of color. A large example used within Hook’s work would be related to sex. Such as the white jocks whose goals were to “fuck” as many girls from other ethnicities other than white. Another example would be the example of the film “Heart Condition” a white mans receives a heart from a black man named Stone, and shortly afterward Mooney finds a replica of a black penis between his legs, and that his personality is now sensitive and loving. All after he ate the other, by having his heart transplanted into him. By Mooney having the transplant into him, it is a literal transplant from the black male who was more seductive, and enlightened and as a result, he was able to acquire the girl that the black man was able to seduce.

Hook’s characterizes relationship to otherness as productive as it explains that there are white people who also acknowledge the struggles that black people go through. Bell includes two white rappers MC Search, and Prime Minister Pete NIce who want to bring a positive message to the black people of understanding, and that humanity as a whole has to get past the hatred. Another way that otherness is productivity is the way Sandra Berhnardt reveals the issues of white appropriation of black culture, and how there is no acknowledgment of whom they got it from, and not giving credit where it is due. By having otherness and addressing the issues of one race being dominant over a specific area, and overcoming it by solidarity or by bringing up the appropriation there can be an improvement of each society to be respected.