Bell Hooks Vs Mas

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The way that Bell Hooks and David “Mas” Masumoto describe their “geobiography” uses very appealing and “delicious” language. They both mention ways that they have used and bonded with the environment, just as many people still do today. Both authors mention that their experiences as marginalized races encouraged them to bond further with nature.

In Hooks’ essay, “Touching the Earth,” she compares her experience to what black people experienced with slavery. She knows that blacks in the South were accustomed to farming as their enslaved ancestors were forced by their owners while also mentioning that “it is easy to forget that in the first part of the twentieth century, the vast majority of black folks in the United States lived in the agrarian South” (hooks 21). This line is very powerful because the South is home to her, as many blacks are migrating north. She does not want to feel homesick as she feels other people are feeling as they are migrating, as there are not as many opportunities to connect with nature as there are doing something that comes naturally to her in her Southern home. …show more content…
Unlike hooks, where land was her biggest relationship and it was sad to see other people migrate, Japanese Americans were not allowed to own land in some places. While some people “had to rent on a 50/50 percent agreement with owners, or a 60/40 split, the ones working the land got the bigger share like it should be, Japanese didn’t have an option, they couldn’t own land. We were still good farmers though, took care of the places. Not a whole lot of choices” (Masumoto 312). The fact that they had to find land and it took them a while seems disheartening. Furthermore, the attacks of Pearl Harbor and the confinement of Japanese Americans in internment camps prevented them from keeping any land they found, including a nice farm of grapes that they “were optimistic” about renting or
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