Theory as Liberatory Practice

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One subject that hooks touched on in this chapter is the gap or split between theory and practice. This is something that I notice as well, not only in my life, but in the talk of theory as a whole. Until you have a theory class, most people don’t understand how to read it at all. I know I didn’t, and I was terrified of reading theory because of the fear of not understanding it. Theory is almost like a big scary, wordy monster that most people fear because they don’t know how to attack it. Most theory is written very scholarly. By that I mean the writers use big words and kind of confusing sentences that most people don’t want to pick up and read just for fun. If theory can be made a little easier to understand by the general public that gap/split may be made smaller and more people will be able to grasp the powerful topic that theorists, such as hooks, write about.

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  1. I like how you connected the gap between theory and practice with the complicated language of theory. hooks thinks both this complexity of theory and the dichotomy between theory and practice is unnecessary, but they indeed go hand in hand. If theory were to employ a more basic language that anyone could access, it would be more feasible for any individual to grasp and apply in his/her daily life.

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