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bell hooks: Ethics From the Margins

University of Illinois

This article explores much of the body of bell hooks's work. It analyzes her long trajectoryfrom her opening salvo, Ain't I a Woman, to her latest books and essays in a frameworkthat contextualizes her explicit and implicit ethical stances in terms of issues of multiculturalism,feminism, and the media. Using a multipronged approach that questions centralethical questions of community, autonomy, voice, inclusion and exclusion, access,and representation, bell hooks challenges us to construct a transnational, feminist, andmulticulturalist project that will allow us to interpret and criticize the contemporary situationand its popular culture. bell hooks stands out as an unflinching critic and contributorto a body of work that reminds us that much of our received intellectual traditions aswell as new and current scholarly work, popular debates, and mass media productsremain embedded in a framework of analysis, production, and representation that servesto oppress and not to liberate.

Key Words: feminism • ethics • multiculturalism • transnational • autonomy • White supremacy

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