A review by as_a_tre3
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics by bell hooks

5.0

I just feel like whatever discourse emerging these days are not something new. bell hooks’ essays in this book are the proofs for that. Say for example, in the current nihilism tied to climate change discourse mostly asserted by white people within their white privilege, bell hooks worded it as an “ignorance, such pervasive feelings of powerlessness which take away our power to protest, to organize.” While she did not write it as a response to climate change issues due to the era when she wrote this book, her critique of nihilism towards critical stance against the system is still somewhat valid. This is one of many reasons I will continue reading bell hooks.