Bell Hook's 'Representing Whiteness In The Black Imagination'

People often think of race as something that is ethnic and exotic, something that only people of color possess. However, whiteness is just as much of a race as any other, yet we continue to ignore the fact that being white is conceptually the same as being black, Hispanic, Muslim, or what have you. This idea is called white privilege and it is based on the social construct that gives white people an advantage, socially, over all other races. Whiteness is constructed in such a way that it is often seen as a default and the norm and is subsequently, basically invisible. Yet, if we can’t see it, then how do we know how whiteness exists as a race or how operates and affects people? Whiteness, unlike any other race, has an incredibly prevent privilege that allows these people to blindly go …show more content…
In Bell Hook’s article, Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination, she further discusses how exploring whiteness through the lens of the ‘black imagination’ can help stimulate the thought of how whiteness really