I'm going to
>take another look at 'Waiting to Exhale' but if anyone has any other
>suggestions, I'd be grateful.

        I suggest that you assign the following essay: *Mock Feminism:
Waiting to Exhale.* by bell hooks in *Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at
the Movies.* (1996).  52-59.
        Another important text: *Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader*
edited by David Theo Goldberg (1994).

        Gloria Monti

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