How does bell hooks define feminism? In what ways, per hooks, is feminism ineffective?

*With the exception of questions that ask to locate a secondary source, the following book and PDF are the ONLY resources allowed.
*Be sure to fully address each question and provide specific examples from the text(s). Use MLA format in­text citations. Include examples in the form of direct quotations, at least 50% of each response must be in your own words.

1. The book:
Prou, Marc L. Introduction to Africana Studies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the African Experience. Boston, MA: Cognella Academic Publishing, 2015. Print. (ISBN: 978-1-62131-550-6).

2. PDF:
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Questions:
Question 1:
A) How does bell hooks define feminism? In what ways, per hooks, is feminism ineffective? Do you agree that contemporary feminism is ineffective? Why or why not?
B) How, for Patricia Collins, are racism and motherhood intertwined? What, per Collins, was one consequence of efforts to control Black women’s sexuality?
C) In what ways, for Patricia Collins, were Black women’s bodies exploited and redefined? How, per Collins, were Black men’s bodies objectified?
D) Discuss one consequence (positive or negative) of the Code Noir. Detail the accomplishments of TWO of the following individuals (Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, AND/OR Madam CJ Walker).

Question 2:
A) In what ways, according to Patricia H. Collins, is the current prison system based on profit? For Collins, what is the link between prison gangs, street gangs, and Black youth culture? Locate a secondary source (scholarly article, website, etc.) that discusses the current state of the United States prison system. Include the link in your response. Does your source support or contradict Collins’s claims?
B) Discuss the impact of the Great Depression on the African American population. Discuss the aim and consequence of the Southern Homestead Act.
C) How, per Michelle Alexander, can legalized discrimination operate today? According to Alexander, what happens once one is labeled a felon? For Alexander, in what ways is the war on drugs the new Jim Crow?
D) Discuss how the system of sharecropping functioned. How, per Angela Davis, did the convict lease system operate? How, according to Davis, did the penitentiary as an institution shift after the American Revolution?
Question 3:
A) How, according to Shira Tarrant, are ideas about masculinity maintained? In what ways, for Tarrant, is conventional masculinity harmful? To what extent do you agree that conventional masculinity is harmful? Support your response with at least one concrete example.
B) What role, for Tarrant, does the public play in supporting the masculine mystique? How, per Tarrant, do women reproduce oppressive conditions?
C) How, according to Paula Giddings, are the women’s movement and the Black movement connected? What issue did Anna Arnold Hedgeman contact A. Philip Randolph about?
D) How does Giddings characterize the “male revolt” of the 1960s? How, according to Giddings’s text, was postwar manhood defined? What, per Giddings, did sociologists, psychiatrists, and the male literati accuse Black women of doing?

Question 4:
A) How, according to Frantz Fanon (whose argument can be located in Kadiatu Kanneh’s essay), are violence and decolonization connected? How, for Fanon, does violence function?
B) What, per Patricia Collins, does new racism rely upon? In what ways, for Collins, is this new form of racism different from that of the past?
C) How does Ta­Nehisi Coates define race and racism? What, for Coates, is the relationship between the two? Do you agree with bell hooks’s argument about the teaching of American history/colonialism? Why or why not?
D) Detail how Booker T. Washington’s and W.E.B. Du Bois’s philosophies differed. Discuss the relationship between Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education.
Question 5:
A) What difficulties, per Patricia Collins, have plagued black families since the 1980s? What two changes, according to Collins, have impacted Black women’s paid labor?
B) What, for O.C. Cox (whose argument can be located in Robert Miles’ essay), is the connection between race prejudice and capitalism? To what extent do you agree with Cox’s argument and why?
C) What are two reasons, according to Jennifer Lemak, why African American children in Albany did not attend school? What conditions, per Patricia Collins, do Black youth face? What, for Avis A. Jones­Deweever and Heidi Hartmann, is problematic about the minimum wage?
D) What, for Beverly Tatum, is the difference between prejudice and racism? How does Barbara Trepagnier define silent racism? Using your lecture notes, discuss the role of prejudice in ONE of the following events (the Tuskegee Study, the lynching of Emmett Till OR the Scottsboro Case).
*NOTE:
1) Answer each question with 200+ words (This 200+ words should answer the four parts (A-D) as a paragraph).
2) With the exception of questions that ask to locate a secondary source, the following book and PDF are the ONLY resources allowed.
3) Label/number each paragraph accordingly to which question it answer.
4) Include example and direct quotations in each paragraph (50% of each response must be in your own words).