January 5, 2001

bell hooks Should Stop Blaming Other People

To the Editor:

While bell hooks blames everybody else for her problems, one could argue from a close reading of her text that she is the person primarily responsible for the life of anger and resentment about which she writes ("Learning in the Shadow of Race and Class," The Review, November 17). It was hooks who felt shame at her lack of material goods; nothing in her narrative suggests that her parents, who clearly loved and doted on her, ever intended to shame her. And hooks is the

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