1.) A huge theme for this reading was having conversations across different boundaries. The conversation between Hall and hooks was interesting as they chatted across several boundaries (age, nation, gender, etc.). Given the reading for today and the import of conversations, how important is it for graduate level courses to be interdisciplinary?
2.) When talking about writing and black intellectuality, hooks writes, "...I feel like part of what we are trapped in, is particularly that academia gives us one kind of discourse that is prioritized and valorized, and therefore, a certain aspect of who one is can be articulated through that discourse. Part of why I fought so hard to write both within and outside the academy is to be able to get different dimensions of one's being" (Hall and hooks 59). Do you similarly feel like academia prioritizes one type of discourse? Looking more broadly towards hooks' point about writing outside of academia, do you feel scholars can truly be themselves within the academy?
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