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bell hooks |
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hooks, born September 25, 1952, is a U.S. Black feminist
social critic best known for her critique of, and strategy against,
what she terms "white supremacist capitalist ". She is currently Distinguished
Professor of English at City College in New York and in addition to
frequent speaking engagements has taught at Yale and Oberlin College.
Born Gloria Watkins, she uses the name bell hooks (spelled without
capitals) to honor her mother and grandmother. In 1973, she graduated
Stanford University, following that with a degree from in 1976 and
with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1983.
She believes, among other things, that many current social issues
(especially race, gender, sex, class, and sexual orientation) are
inextricably interconnected, and that positive social change requires
confronting them "as a whole". Some of her views could be called radical
or possibly anti-white. She spells "Black" with a capital but spells
"white" in lower-case. Some books by hooks include: Ain't I a
Woman: Black women and feminism (1981), Feminist Theory from
Margin to Center (1984), Yearning: race, gender, and cultural
politics (1990), Bone Black: memories of girlhood (1996),
Rapture: the writer at work (1999) |
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