In chapter four of the book “Black Looks” Bell Hooks elaborates about the commodification of black women’s bodies, and how they are both physically and socially constructed entities. Also, she talks about how black women are presented in the media and shows the perspective between the new and old representations of the black female sexuality in difficulty of the American slave trade. Hooks starts the chapter by expressing a situation in which she was faced with racism while accompanied by some of her white associates, and yet they all ignored the situation because “It is just something negative disrupting the good time, better to not notice and pretend it's not there” stated Hooks. She proceeds along to discuss further back in history when
