Social critic bell hooks (born 1952) is a prolific writer whose books analyze the function of race, as well as gender, in contemporary culture.Writer, professor, and social critic, bell hooks is unden...
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"bell hooks's unique contribution to intellectual life, American letters and Black thought," writes Cornel West in his collaboration with bell hooks, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life ...
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Smith is an American editor. In the following essay, she criticizes hooks's antagonism toward black men and white women as well as her apparent homophobia in Ain't I a Woman: Black Women...
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In the following review, Coleman discusses hooks's attempt to "decolonize" the minds of African Americans in Black Looks: Race and Representation.
We have to change our own mind&...
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Madison is an American writer. In the following review, she discusses hooks's attempt to delineate the "connections between race, representation, and domination" in the media in B...
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In the following interview, hooks and Cooper discuss feminism and African American men.
Since Ain't A Woman, published in 1981 and recently named one of the 20 most influential women's b...
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Karabel is an American educator and sociologist. In the following review, he discusses Teaching to Transgress: Educating as the Practice of Freedom and Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations. Altho...
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In the following review, Haley provides a detailed analysis of Teaching to Transgress and Outlaw Culture.
Have you ever read a book and felt that it was written about you? This usually happens to me o...
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In the following excerpt, Wallace complains that hooks's work has become increasingly "self-centered, narcissistic, and even hostile to the idea of countervailing perspectives."
I...
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Randall-Tsuruta is an American writer and educator. In the following essay, she expresses disappointment with the lack of documentation and the abundance of unsubstantiated opinions in Ain't I ...
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In the following review, Bell-Scott praises Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center because of its critique of American feminism and its vision of the future of the feminist movement.
Four years ago, I...
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In the following review, Pettis praises Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center for the balance it brings to feminist theory and the feminist movement.
Bell Hook's second book [Feminist Theory: ...
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Critical Review by Marlene Nourbese Philip
"Rude Girls," in Books in Canada, Vol. 18, No. 4, May, 1989, pp. 25-6.
In the following review, Philip discusses the major themes in Talking Ba...
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In the following review, Williams praises Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black for putting forth a new model for the relationship between black women and feminism.
With her usual polemicism...
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In the following review, Walker asserts that "Yearning is about wanting to find health in an ailing community, and doing so through coming to voice, sharing ideas, and healing the whole communi...
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In the following review, Alexander discusses the themes and postmodernist techniques in Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics.
In Yearning (1990), her fourth book, bell hooks writes across dis...
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In the following interview, Jones and hooks discuss how contemporary media portray black men and women.
It began, as it often does, with a photograph. Cultural critic/feminist poobah bell hooks receiv...
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