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bell hooks
bell hooks is a black woman intellectual and revolutionary activist. She is celebrated as one of America's leading public intellectuals and is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. A prolific writer she is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture and has focused her attention on the myriad forms of racism from subtle to blatant. Her first book, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism which she began when she was 19, was named one of the "twenty most influential women's books of the last twenty years" by Publishers Weekly in 1992.
bell hooks has long been an inspiration for me. Her book "All About Love" has been hands down the most important book I have ever read about relationships - both societal and intimate. She is a brilliant cultural theorist thinker and synthesizer of ideas who, in the face of immense resistance from the left and intellectual circles, is not afraid to say the word love out loud.
When we met her in her home in a small town in Kentucky she was gardening in her backyard. To sit in her presence was to bathe in radiance.
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BOOKS INCLUDE
Feminist Theory
Black Looks
All about love: New Visions
Yearning, Talking Back
Breaking Bread (with Cornel West)
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (Updated Edition)
Home Grown: Engaged Cultural Criticism with Amalia Mesa-Baines