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by Danielle Winterton on October 11, 2010

By Danielle Winterton ~ bell hooks took aim at fashionable best-selling novels that romanticize the idea of inter-racial sisterhood and have reduced the idea of feminine solidarity across cultures into light, feel-good sentimental tripe, or “claptrap” as she put it, that has no transformative power for either the individual or the culture.

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