Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Superficial and contradictory

Ms. Hooks--her affected name which she writes in lower case for reasons left unexplained to readers--shouldn't complain so much about feeling "marginalized" in the "white male academy": this book shows she is deeply embedded in it. She has mastered the old academic game: heavily criticizing "the system" while at the smae time extracting a comfortable living from it. She is indeed "insurgent" if you definite insurgency as holding a job in a prestigious liberal arts college. She is "progressive" if that progress involves studious avoidance of any involvement in organized efforts to change things (she lionizes "theory" in one typically rambling chapter, no doubt seeing her passive, shallow intellectualism as some kind of powerful political movement). All of us who are REALLY interested in political change should abandon the writing of people like Ms. Hooks and listen to people who, rather than simply thinking for a living, actually DO something.