Bell hooks "Talking Back"

Hooks refers to "woman talk" and "man talk" and the differences that distinguish them from each other.  For example she wrote that "black men may have excelled in the art of poetic preaching in the male dominated church, but in the church of the home,  where the everyday rules of how to live and how to act were established, it was black women who preached." Hooks is demonstrating that black women had a much larger voice that impacted more in the home compared to the men in church. And later even writes about how exciting and heated dialogues between a group of black women could get. It's interesting to see the how hooks viewed her authority figures growing up. She wrote of wanting to speak up and state her opinion but that children were meant to be seen and not heard. She even relates to the bias she felt of being a girl. And how that had an effect on her having a voice as well. Hooks wrote because it was her way of "talking back" and having her own opinion which she couldn't always do by speech. She felt the power of stating her feelings and having a voice through her writing. I felt that the the issues presented weren't at all about race but about gender and the roles men and women played when hooks was growing up. The stereotypes shown can still be seen in todays society. Why is that? And how does gender relate to race and racism?