Bell Hooks

[Scuba]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks

Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25, 1952), better known by her pen name bell hooks (sic),[1] is an American author, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is derived from that of her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks, a woman known for speaking her mind.[2]



Hooks's writing has focused on the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she describes as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. She has published over 30 books and numerous scholarly articles, appeared in documentary films, and participated in public lectures. Primarily through a postmodern perspective, she has addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media, and feminism. In 2014 she founded the bell hooks Institute in Berea, Kentucky.

[handmade34]

1. K&R n/t

[SusanCalvin]

2. Odd that Wikipedia put "sic"

on her name.

Sounds like they're saying she's miscapitalizing her own name. She knows her own name, and it is bell hooks!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. They're not saying that she's miscapitalising her name, they're saying that they aren't.

If you didn't know that hooks doesn't use capital letters in her name, you might well assume it was an editorial error; the "sic" is there to say "no, we really meant to use lower case here".

[SusanCalvin]

7. Ah.

I've only ever seen it used to indicate "we know this is wrong, but that's how it's written."

[Donald Ian Rankin]

8. "Sic" is short for "Sic erat scriptum" - "Thus was it written".

It's used to indicate that something that would otherwise be assumed to be a mistake really is a faithful transcription of a source.

As you say, it's often used to say "we know this is wrong", but it doesn't have to be, just "we think you may think this is wrong".

[mountain grammy]

3. Huge K&R for bell hooks.

[MisterP]

4. "demonstrative violence" is the term; they're also often geographically concentrated

[lunatica]

5. A.K.A. Racial Terrorism