In Killing Rage: Militant Resistance, bell hooks turns a personal experience of racism and sexism into an opportunity to advocate for the ownership of rage as a means to liberation. By exploring the notion of black rage, hooks helps bring awareness not only to the ways in which we can use this rage as a fuel for transformation, but also to accentuate the distinction between black rage as perceived by white society v. black rage for what it actually is. hooks argues against the notion of rage as “something other than sickness” and reclaims it as “a potentially healthy … healing response to oppression and exploitation.” hooks’ assertion that the repression of rage asks that black people “remain complicit with white people’s effort to colonize,
