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...essays collected here, hooks draws on a broad range of sources, from post-colonialist criticism to personal experience and discussion with friends to critique the treatment of race in popular culture. hooks argues convincingly that these issues matter, that the way we perceive Anita Hill's testimony, Madonna's videos or J. Crew's latest catalogue can shape our understanding of our own lives...
...Madonna falls under similar scrutiny in a later essay, perhaps the best yet on how the Material Girl toys with racial and sexual images. Unlike other writers, hooks does not let Madonna's progressive activism obscure a through evaluation of her work. hooks is able to see how Madonna's videos and movies simply reinforce familiar prejudices. In a harsh, insightful critique of Truth or Dare, hooks asks difficult questions about Madonna's declared affection for the "outsider" cultures of Blacks and homosexuals...
...most of the well-cast Peaches lineup (which includes Madonna as a sexually outre outfielder), playing in the league is pure pleasure, a larkish flight from hometown constraints. But Davis, an entrancing mixture of wariness, reserve and quiet gumption, finds something more in it, an authentic awareness of the ambiguity of the women's position -- they are being exploited, after all -- which requires a lifetime for her to resolve. That's good, and so is her abrasive relationship with a kid sister (Lori Petty), a pitcher on the team who resents her elder sibling's cool, dispassionate competence...
...These unconventional calls to patriotic duty are part of a broadly orchestrated campaign by celebrities, cable channels and record companies to get youths involved in the electoral process. "The idea," says Jody Uttal, co-founder of the voter-registration group Rock the Vote, which produced the Ice-T and Madonna videos, "is to raise the political consciousness of kids and to make voting...
...Until Madonna is moved to lead a rally to the local garbage dump, Gans favors educational efforts like the First Vote campaign sponsored by People for the American Way. Its classroom instruction method, in which teachers devote a social studies period to the electoral process and register students right in the classroom, is based on a Dade County, Fla., program that registers around 12,000 high school students every year. Meanwhile Channel % One, the advertiser-supported television service that is provided to public and private schools, is planning a mock election in which its 7.1 million viewers, assisted...