Bell hooks has an uncanny way of pushing the political buttons of her opposition and collogues by using her politically charged and aggressive approach to sensitive issues. She attacks the old definitions of expertise and authority and suggests new ones. Hooks challenges those who claim to be experts in cultural academia and ethnic groups. Scholars in the academy largely use the objective of the term expertise to define it; a competitive stance of mainstream academic …showed first 75 words of 391 total…

…showed last 75 words of 391 total…written excellent books that focus on black experiences; a few have. Rather, I mean that those books should not be seen as more significant and valuable than similar books by black people” (130). As a scholar and a teacher herself, bell hooks encourages progressive thought and to constantly question tacit and common trends of academic rhetoric. By doings so the academic institution has the ability to develop a more encompassing understanding of its role in society.