bell hooks: Black Looks

As much as I want to continue this series, I feel that I might hit a dead end very soon. I think I've made some good discoveries and am afraid that I won't be able to push it much further. But - in hopes of making some new finds, I've been reading, reading, reading. One of the most inspirational authors to read, is bell hooks. In her book, Black Looks - Race and Representation, hooks goes into depth about the consequences and issues within a dominant white culture.
In the chapter, Loving Blackness as Political Resistance, hooks talks about the failed ways in which people attempt to understand and solve racism, like color-blindness. She even introduces one way that I hadn't ever thought about:

"Many unlearning racism workshops focus on helping white individuals to see that they too are wounded by racism and as a consequence have something to gain from participating in anti-racist struggle. White in some ways true, a construction of political solidarity that is rooted in a narrative of shared victimization not only acts to recenter whites, it risk obscuring the particular ways racist domination impacts the loves of marginalized groups."

"Anti-racist work that tries to get these individuals to see themselves as "victimized" by racism in hopes that this will act as an intervention is a misguided strategy."

I find hooks point to very interesting and true, and would like to further explore it in my work.