Birdie becomes conscious of the white gaze and the power of the white gaze in ways that many cannot and she becomes very informed of the power of the white gaze when her father, a black man, is interrogated by the police because he is accused of kidnapping "a little white girl"" (Senna, p. 60-61) who is actually his daughter. ... Author bell hooks had one explained that there is safety in the pretense of invisibility (hooks, 2000. p. 340), if you are invisible to the naked eye and can disappear then there is no reason to be scared. You are not being watched, judged or stereotyped when you are ...

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To my surprise the owner rejected this mans request, and actually suggested that he should go to the bank. As it was a Sunday and the banks were closed, the man of African American descent became very agitated with this comment. ... This experience was shocking to me as it definitely pertains to a feature in my invisible knapsack as Peggy Mcintosh describes. ... This bothers me a great deal as I realize that my dad is victim to the stereotypes that most people hold in regard to homosexuals. ... All my neighbors would have been white, and I would have been classified and stereotyped just ...

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