Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks
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Book Reviews of Where We Stand: Class Matters
Book Review: Coming Out Of The Shadows
Summary: 3 Stars
Where We Stand by bell hooks addresses the issue of class in society. She does this by using her experiences in her life growing up as a black female born into the lower class. This book discusses Hooks's struggle to climb the social ladder and what inhibits others from doing the same thing. This novel addesses all the issues of class that are in the shadows that no one else will bring up. After reading this book I was forced to look at social class in a different way. It will be an educational experience for anyone who reads it.Book Review: class
Summary: 3 Stars
When reading Bell Hooks class matters i came to realize the importance of why class matters. Bell's examples of how her family did not talk about class relate to me. In my family we never considered where we stood in society. My parents would try to do there best to raise me, but they never complained that it was because of our class when it really was. Bell hooks let me understand where my place in society is through her book.Book Review: Class dosent matter!
Summary: 3 Stars
I loved the beginning of this book, and I was really understanding how she felt, and how all this made her who she is now. But once i got to the middle and end, I thought she was taking iteverything out porportion. I have heard Bell Hooks, is a very inspirational speaker, and I'm sure she is, but she can go alittle too far.Book Review: Where We Stand: Class Matters
Summary: 2 Stars
Where We Stand is a book that relates class and race. As you read you are confronted with a number of instances related to you by the author about her childhood. She does this to illustrate her point when confronted by class discrimination that goes beyond race later in the book. I read this for a College level English class and was constantly analyzing, and picking apart this piece of literature. during the course of our discussion, we came to the conclusion that bell hooks was seeing past the social constraints and looking at the real "problem" with society, Class. This seems like a good idea, but throughout the book I was constantly agitated with the way she presents material and argues her point, halfway through the book I put it down, I didn't need this monologue of at times childish whining.Book Review: Well Written But......
Summary: 2 Stars
This book is well written however, it seems to be an American version of Karl Marx's communist manifisto. The author advocates redistribution of wealth for the workers. A scary thought.