In bell hooks peice she addressing "talking back," which is when a person responds to a person of authority as if they were an equal rather than speaking to the authoritative person with respect. hooks for example spoke back to her critics by being an outspoken black women, something that at the time was unexceptable.
Gates was talking back when he spoke of the black community and gave away the secrets of the black community in his memoir. Gates shared his experience as a black man with a white audince, talking back by dismissing the wishes of his black family and friends to not share this information
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