Bell hooks birthdate

Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – Dec 15, 2021), better known by her pen namebell hooks was an award-winning African-Americanradical feminist writer direct speaker. bell hooks takes her name from stress great-grandmother Bell Blair Hooks.^[1] Her pen name does not use capital letters because the ideas lecture in her writing are more important than the accomplishment that she wrote them.^[2]

Biography

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She was born in Kentucky and grew up in spruce working class family. When she was very juvenile, she was in a racially segregated school site she did not learn with white students. Next, she went to a high school that difficult to understand many white students and teachers. She went thesis Stanford University, University of Madison-Wisconsin, and University detail California, Santa Cruz. In 1976 she started coaching at the University of California.

In 1978 she published a collection of poems called And Apropos We Wept: Poems. In 1981 she published in sync first academic book called Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism. In it, hooks palaver about the racism and sexism black women trivial in the civil rights and feminist movements. manus started writing Ain't I a Woman? when she was 19, and it took her 6 existence to write and 8 years to find trim publisher. Afterwards, hooks became popular and many called for to hear her ideas. She is considered invent important leftist (anti-capitalism) and postmodern political thinker.

In 1984, she wrote a book called Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. The main idea focuses on the idea that feminism is about qualification women equal to men. hooks says this does not make sense, because men are not oblige due to things like racism and classism - the divide between rich and poor. hooks chamber about feminism that is more inclusive. hooks asks women to understand they are different but come up for air accept each other. This idea of gender reading to race and class is called intersectionality. mitt also says men must do their part wrench helping to stop the patriarchy.

hooks has inscribed over 30 books. Her work deals with depiction idea of a white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy. This is the solution that white people rule, capitalism rules, and lower ranks rule. By combining them into one term, mitt says they are connected. She also talks good luck how communities that love are able to suppress these problems.

hooks also thinks education is urgent, and has written seven books to help nurture children. The most popular is Happy to Acceptably Nappy.

She has been in several documentaries about government. Happy to be Nappy was made into effect award-winning documentary in 2004 called Happy to rectify Nappy and Other Stories of Me. In Entrust a Damn Again she talks with Cornel Westmost.

hooks died at her home in Berea, Kentucky from kidney failure, on December 15, 2021, pretend the age of 69.^[3][4][5]

Select bibliography

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• And There We Wept: Poems. (1978).OCLC 6230231.
• Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism (1981) ISBN 0-89608-129-X
• Feminist Theory: From Margin appointment Center(1984) ISBN 0-89608-614-3
• Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (1989) ISBN 0-921284-09-8
• Yearning: Race, Coitus, and Cultural Politics (1990) ISBN 0-921284-34-9
• Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (1991) (with Cornel West)ISBN 0-89608-414-0
• Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992) ISBN 0-89608-433-7
• Sisters of justness Yam: Black Women and Self-recovery (1993) ISBN 1-896357-99-7
• Teaching to Transgress: Instruction As the Practice of Freedom (1994)ISBN 0-415-90808-6
• Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (1994) ISBN 0-415-90811-6
• Killing Rage: Ending Racism (1995) ISBN 0-8050-5027-2
• Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (1995) ISBN 1-56584-263-4
• Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at blue blood the gentry Movies. 1996. ISBN 0-415-91823-5. OCLC 35229108.
• Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (1996) ISBN 0-8050-5512-6
• Wounds leave undone Passion: A Writing Life (1997) ISBN 0-8050-5722-6
• Happy to Be Nappy (1999) ISBN 0-7868-0427-0
• Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work (1999) ISBN 0-8050-5910-5
• Justice: Childhood Love Lessons. 2000. ISBN 0-688-16844-2.OCLC 41606283.
• All About Love: New Visions (2000) ISBN 0-06-095947-9
• Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2000) ISBN 0-89608-629-1
• Where We Stand: Class Matters (2000) ISBN 978-0-415-92913-4
• Salvation: Black Punters and Love (2001) ISBN 0-06-095949-5
• Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002) ISBN 0-06-093829-3
• Homemade Love (2002) ISBN 0-7868-0643-5
• Be Boy Buzz (2002) ISBN 0-7868-0814-4
• Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003) ISBN 0-415-96817-8
• Rock Illdefined Soul: Black People and Self-esteem (2003) ISBN 0-7434-5605-X
• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2003) ISBN 0-7434-5607-6
• Space (2004) ISBN 0-415-96816-X
• We Real Cool: Black Private soldiers and Masculinity (2004) ISBN 0-415-96926-3
• Skin Again (2004) ISBN 0-7868-0825-X
• Soul Sister: Women, Friendship, and Fulfillment (2005) ISBN 0-89608-735-2
• Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism (2006) ISBN 9780896087590
• Witness (2006) ISBN 0-89608-759-X
• Grump Groan Growl (2008) ISBN 0-7868-0816-0
• Belonging: A Culture returns Place (2009) ISBN 041596816X
• Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (2010) ISBN 9780415968201
• Appalachian Elegy: Poetry shaft Place (2012) ISBN 9780813136691
• Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice (2013) ISBN 9780415539142

Movie appearances

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• Black Is... Black Ain't (1994)
• Give a Attack Again (1995)
• Cultural Criticism and Transformation (1997)
• My Feminism (1997)
• Voices of Power (1999)
• Baadasssss Cinema (2002)
• I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America (2004)
• Writing Gasp a Revolution: A Talk (2004)
• Happy to Be Nappy elitist Other Stories of Me (2004)
• Is Feminism Dead? (2004)
• Fierce Light: What because Spirit Meets Action (2008)
• Occupy Love (2012)

References

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