#saved by the bell hooks
Source:Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Zack is in the locker room holding a microphone to his mouth. He is carrying recording equipment, and he is addressing a girl with a hand on her hip, a look of disbelief on her face (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “White people benefit from the privileges accrued from racist exploitation, past and present, and are therefore accountable for changing and transforming white supremacy and racism.”
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Source:All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Kelly and Jessie face each other in a serious conversation. The caption reads, “Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy.”
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Source:Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie and Slater sit beside each other in a booth at a public restaurant. Slater is grinning at Jessie, squeezing her cheeks with his left hand. She is looking at him in annoyance. The caption reads, “The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression.”
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Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie and Slater listen to Lisa who is pointing at herself. The caption reads, “Our struggle for liberation has significance only if it takes place within a feminist movement that has as its fundamental goal the liberation of all people.”
Source:Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
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Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie and Slate look up from the books contemplatively. The caption reads, “Consider the possibility that to love Blackness is dangerous in a white supremacist culture- so threatening, so serious a breach in the fabric of the social order that the punishment is death.”
Source:Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks
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Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. The six friends are gathered in a bedroom. They are all listening to Lisa speaking. They wear colorful clothes and have serious expressions on their face. Screech has his face pressed against a pillow, and Slater is holding the ceramic bust of Elvis Presley. The caption reads, “Our contemporary crisis is created by a lack of meaningful access to truth.”
Source:Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
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Source: bell hooks’ 2010 lecture at the New College of Florida.
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Screech stands at the front door, holding it open. Zack faces him, pointing at him accusingly, and holding a yellow duffel bag. The caption reads “In fascist regimes, teaching populations to fear terrorism is one way the system garners support.”
Source: bell hooks’ 2010 lecture at the New College of Florida.
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Source:Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie, Lisa, and Kelly are standing in front of a row of lockers. Jessie and Kelly are listening to Lisa who is speaking emphatically, her hands raised slightly (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “Many feminist film critics continue to structure their discourse as though it speaks about women when in actuality it only speaks about white women.”
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Source: bell hooks in an interview with Maya Angelou for Shambhala Sun
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Lisa and a friend are at a slumber party, wearing pajamas. Lisa is holding her hands up in excitement, and she is smiling as she talks to someone off camera (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or someone else’s ignorance.”
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Source: Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Kelly, Lisa, Jessie and Slater are standing in front of the lockers, looking toward Zack as he speaks. Everyone has solemn expressions on their faces (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.”
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Source:Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice by bell hooks
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Zack is in the locker room holding a microphone to his mouth. He is carrying recording equipment, and he is addressing a girl with a hand on her hip, a look of disbelief on her face (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “White people benefit from the privileges accrued from racist exploitation, past and present, and are therefore accountable for changing and transforming white supremacy and racism.”
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Source:bell hooks interview with Emma Watson for PaperMag, 2016
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Tori and Lisa are sitting in a locker room having a serious discussion. Tori is wearing a leather jacket, and Lisa is wearing a cowgirl-decal denim shirt (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “All females [sic] living in the modern culture go through this transitional phase of sort of trying on acceptable images of femininity.”
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Source:bell hooks interview with Abigail Bereola of Shondaland, 2017
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie and Kelly are wearing hula skirts and bikini tops. They are in the act of dancing, and both have tentative expressions on their faces (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “Women are made to feel that we aren’t safe and that, in fact, we might feel that we’ll be safe if we acknowledge flaws, if we have an assumption of vulnerability.”
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