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Assignment #6

In Bell Hooks chapter, “ Eating the other: Desire and Resistance” of her essay Hook establishes a relationship between the rise in interactions between white persons and “the others”. Hooks uses words as “the others” to group together people who are racially and sexually different from the norms of white culture. Hook shows the transition in reactions from white people to people of different cultures. That dominance and superiority are no longer reasons for sexual or other physical interactions with people of color. Hook makes a statement of support to show an example of this transition. That three white jocks had the goal of fucking as many Black, Asian, and Native-American girls as possible. The relationship with the others and white people are due to the ideology that having sexual encounters and cultural enrichment would progress their experiences. That this spice and interaction would be a benefit to there boring, cliche lifestyles. Even though it takes the consent of another for them to produce this ideology and consider it successful. White people consider this method sound and acceptable since they no longer practice the racially, discriminatory, supremacist ways of their forefathers. This method is a way that white people and people of color can break down boundaries with other cultures. I don’t understand the primitive part, I feel as if that is totally irrelevant to the subject and that she tries to elaborate on this central idea and just confuses the topic some more with her feministic perspectives by trying to show a chauvinistic view of white men. Hook further contradicts herself by characterizing this relationship as productive due to the fact that instead of white people seeing themselves superior to “the others” they can see each other possibly as equals. That the sexual encounters and taboo ideology of the others bring about healthy interactions and further progress into social integration.