"Homeplace: A Site of Resistance"

bell hooks's essay "Homeplace" is very powerful. When reading her story, I could feel the intensity in her writing. She uses very powerful words and descriptions. For example, when she is explaining her walk to her grandmother's house she says, "we would have to pass that terrifying whiteness". Such intense descriptions really let me feel what she was feeling. hook's essay is about black womens' roles in society. She uses the term "homeplace" to mean a type of inner comfort zone. She explains how black women went and worked as maids in white households and even though they worked all day for other people, they still had enough in themselves to come home and provide for their families. These women got the stregnth to provide for everyone from their homeplace. Homeplace to hooks both is a place to recover from all of your struggles to become whole again and the actual home itsself. Through hook's essay she expresses her feelings very strongly and she begins giving feelings of anger when she explains "homeplace" as a woman's "natural" role. She says, "The assumtion then is that the black woman who works hard to be a responsible caretaker is only doing what she should be doing". Unfortunately, this is a true statement. Many people believe that a woman's role is in the home and that is why women are still being looked down on for doing certain things and why women still make a quarter less that men. I enjoyed hook's essay.