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Antonella’s 6th Assignment

Hooks describes the concept of the others as people who are not of a similar ethnicity as yourself. The introduction of the others was seen as a way to add something interesting to our mundane lives. However, the others were extremally vital to the lives of the whites and white culture. There was a form of cultural taboos about sexuality and desire are disobeyed and was used to help media overwhelm the viewers with a message of difference. Without any ideas based on any white supremacist assumptions. The new form of media had then installed this Idea of fantasies and interest of the others in a fashion of an aspect of white supremacy. Hooks believed that the relationships with the others is good for both parties in order for them to open the thinking and understanding of the side that isn’t the other and for the other half would remove the dreaded status quo that forces out the individuality to remain motionless and allows the racial boundaries to continue. The other relationship that Hooks would describes as a respectable thing due to the fact that this inspires the people to experience more than what they believed to be possible when they have a good relationship. Hooks gives several references and example to showcase her argument of how the other is desired. She writes about a film, Heart Condition. Heart Condition is about a white racist cop, who has a heart transplant and receives a heart from a black man. The white man has been trying to destroy because the black man started to date a woman that the white man loved. Due to his “black heart,” the white man learns to become more seductive and change his attitudes towards people of other races. Hooks see this as a literal dramatization of “eating the Other” and accepting the upright qualities that they bring out to us, which allows us to become better people.