Chapter 17

Summary:

This chapter, by bell hooks, is about the media and how they now show more people of different races and ethnicities. People are drawn to this because of people's facination with people of a different race and as a result we find out more about ourselves, by looking at the opposite.

Questions:

1. Why does bell hooks assert that blondes don't have more fun anymore? do you agree?
She relates this to the media in that it is broading their horizons as to what is out there and no longer just the "white view" and no longer based on the assumption of "blondes have more fun". I agree with hooks, throught the past 30 years, television and the media have become more diversified and accepting of different people of different races.

2. What does she mean by "otherness"? What role does it play in contemporary society?
The "otherness" is people of different races that the media once would not use. There will always be "others" in society but people are more accepting

3. What does she mean by "commodifying the otherness"?
By acknowledging and finding ecjoyment out of different ethnicities

4.What does she mean by ethnicity is now a "spice"?
What she means is that people of different ethnicities are living up the television and media when it was once dull.

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