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bell hooks. Where/How do you identify with her life? For me (dan) it’s: Her academic life Her name change Racism The conservatizing function of higher ed. Lack of a connection theory and practice in higher ed. Hooks Nature of the World.

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  1. bell hooks • Where/How do you identify with her life? • For me (dan) it’s: • Her academic life • Her name change • Racism • The conservatizing function of higher ed. • Lack of a connection theory and practice in higher ed.

  2. Hooks Nature of the World • The world is marked by oppression and exploitation devaluing— • reciprocity, community , and mutuality. • “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy” • Denial of “connection”(s) (Foss, p. 76) • “what we can’t imagine, can’t come to be” (Foss, p. 78)

  3. Definition of Feminism • The struggle to end sexist oppression (end of sexist role patterns, • domination, and oppression) • Attend to systems of domination and inter-relatedness of sex, race, • and class oppression

  4. Nature of the Rhetor • Those who have the capacity to address the exigence of • domination—are critical thinkers or intellectuals • “site of radical possibility, a space of resistance—for example black • rhetoric and sit-ins and demonstrations: “We may loose five times, • and win one,” that’s progress and effective rhetoric of resistance. • Adoption of the role of critical thinker or enlightened witness • Recommended Reading: The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control, • John W. Bowers & et al. (2nd ed.) Waveland Press

  5. Rhetorical Options • Designed to intervene in practices of domination • Process of decolonization • Colonization is conquering of “minds and habits to internalize and • accept inherent inferiority” • Theory needs to be developed that disrupts and transforms (seven • methods)

  6. Rhetorical Options Continued • Theory Development: • for concrete situations (her sister in Foss. p. 85) • in an accessible style of writing—for example Linda Putnam • and her visit to MSU-Billings • Enactment: live out your beliefs • Confession: knowledgeable confessions linked to political world not just narcissistic acts or commodity spectacles • Dialogue: • concrete counter-examples to test out and hear responses (Einstein’s “think experiments) • no censorship in dialogue • also dialogue with those who exploit, oppress, and dominate

  7. Rhetorical Options Continued • Cultural Criticism: • actively enter the terrain of poplar culture • television and film • Education: • serve in decolonization • Community Outreach: • use of women’s groups • minority professors at MSU-Billings

  8. Transformation of Rhetorical Theory “Designed to disrupt and transform the white supremacist capitalist patriarchal system” Purpose for Rhetoric:to facilitate the eradication fo the ideology of domination Hierarchy:reject it as natural Ethos:marginal rhetors who produce counterhegemonic discourse derived from their personal experiences Enactment:not a part of traditional rhetorical repertoire—living in ways that are nondomination Visual Arts:to imagine (image, dan here) new possibilities and alternatives

  9. “Our freedom is sweet. It will be even sweeter when we are all free.” --bell hooks

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