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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 23 reviews
bell hooks
South End Press, 2000
A Must Have
Im a young feminist and I adore bell hooks. Before reading hooks I was only familiar with one opinion of feminism: the white, upper-middle class, waspy side. Im totally digging reading another side of the story. Hooks' language is accessible but her ideas are complex. She tackles topics that I other authors overlook. By not limiting the scope of the discussion to body image, rape, and compulsory ...
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Black Looks: Race and Representation 5 reviews
bell hooks
South End Press, 1999
fabulous first full encounter with bell hooks
Until now I have only read excerpts from bell hooks' works. Then I recently saw a C-Span program in which bell hooks led a discussion with a college audience. Reminded of the intriguing excerpts I had read, I chose Black Looks as my first full encounter with this intriguing woman's thoughts. I did not examine the readers' comments on Black Looks until completing the book, but I too would like to ...
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All About Love: New Visions 25 reviews
bell hooks
Harper Paperbacks, 2001
Very liberating!
I LOVE this book...read through it very quickly and look forward to reading it again. It did more for me than any "self-help" book I've picked up because she explores the issues surrounding love and why we are unable to love ourself. And there is no pressure to "practice" certain healing methods. The book is thought provoking and inspirational. I've struggled with the issue of lovelessness all ...
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Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope 4 reviews
bell hooks
Routledge, 2003
Brilliant.
Totally eye opening. Really makes you question yourself and strive to be better. Reassuring that change and progress is still possible. Truly an inspiration. I also recommend Killing Rage, by bell hooks.
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center 18 reviews
bell hooks
South End Press, 2000
Essential
bell hooks us up. This is the genuine article. This is a critical, essential book for anyone studying or interested in sexism, racism, classism and other isms.
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism16 reviews
Bell Hooks
South End Press, 1999
Here is where it all began
Those who would dismiss Hook's scholarship and arguments as substandard are truly threatened by the radical observations she makes about the world and black women's relationship to it and in it.
The "Clif Notes" version Hooks has been maligned for by her critics have been practiced openly by white feminists (and predominantly white groups) so I honestly cannot see what the criticism is about ...
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Communion: The Female Search for Love14 reviews
bell hooks
Harper Paperbacks, 2003
bell hooks & communion
I have recommended this book to all those women in my life who have sold out to the patriarchal values in American culture because I want them to find communion with a more enlightened man and not settle for anything less.
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Belonging: A Culture of Place
bell hooks
Routledge, 2008
What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic Bell Hooks examines in her new book, "Belonging: A Culture of Place". Traversing past and present, "Belonging" charts a cyclical journey in which Hooks moves from place to place, from country to city and back again, only to end where ...
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Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics2 reviews
Bell Hooks
South End Press, 1999
bell hooks' insight is a gift to the world
Yearning is comprised of a series of essays, which identify, dissect, and communicate cultural politics with a focus on the world's lack of focus towards black women. Various overlooked and underrepresented groups in the media and world literature are given a voice too. Stereotypes and cultural ignorance is dealt with thoroughly. Not only does the author shoot down the upper-class white ...
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity8 reviews
bell hooks
Routledge, 2003
Great Analysis of Black men!
I have never reviewed online, despite my interest in Afro-American related books. However, I could not pass up an opportunity to encourage someone to purchase this book! I borrowed it from the library in an attempt to discover books which would be a potential addition to my own private library. Ms. Hooks addresses the complex things in a simple manner. This book was not seasoned with opinion; ...
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Happy to Be Nappy (Jump at the Sun)12 reviews
bell hooks
Jump At The Sun, 1999
simple, self loving, and healthy
The little girls depicted are healthy, and love themselves and the way they look. I like the abstract art, and non-idealized images of real kids with real hair.
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Homemade Love3 reviews
bell hooks
Hyperion Book CH, 2003
Beautiful
I originally bought this book because it was about and african american family and I wanted my toddler to identify with any race not just our own. I didn't expect the book to be so beautiful and truly lovely, my daughter broke a jar just like the little girl in the book and everytime we get to that part she always compares herself to honey dew drop :) and it makes me so happy because not once ...
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Skin Again2 reviews
bell hooks
Hyperion Book CH, 2004
Love it!
This book is great, like anything by bell hooks. My kids love it. It leads to some excellent conversations with them. :)
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Salvation: Black People and Love12 reviews
bell hooks
Harper Perennial, 2001
love is what we really need
This is one of the most thought-provoking books I have read in a while. Though I purchased this book a few years ago, I only recently picked it up to read. And what a read it was.... bell hooks brilliantly explores and exposes many of the fundamental causes at the root of our society's, particularly the black community's, moral decay and self-deformation. Though written for and to ...
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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black2 reviews
Bell Hooks
South End Press, 1999
A gift
Required reading not only for feminists - both men and women -but for writers and other artists. Valuable for all humans who have been silenced at some point in their lives. Since that includes most children, this book has much to offer all of us. Her observations are wise. Her grasp of history is absolute. Her ideas stimulate intelligent and loving thought, conversation, and action. Read this ...
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Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems6 reviews
Bell Hooks, Jocelyn Elders, ...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2000
Powerful, thought-provoking, and most of all, accessible!
This is a very serious piece of writing. So often, African-Americans look to others for help in "handling our business." Here are 13 essays from people of thought and action that have decided to lay out some ways we can handle it ourselves! The real beauty of this book is the accessibility of what is written. No offense to Cornel West and other Black Intellectuals (they have voices that must ...
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Where We Stand32 reviews
Taylor & Francis, 2007
Book encourages reflection on recent events
I started reading this book shortly before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and news clips began pouring in from New Orleans. More clearly than ever, I understood the need for books like Where We Stand to encourage us to think about issues of class in America and then take action in our own lives.
I read bell hooks because she challenges the notions I have from my white supremacist, ...
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom18 reviews
bell hooks
Routledge, 1994
Extremely Good Segue to Freire
This is the third of three books on liberation pedagogy that I picked up, the other two being Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (Critical Perspectives Series) and Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
This book is a collection of essays by a woman of color who studied with Freire and found in his works her own liberation and her inspiration to take his ideas and practices ...
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Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life4 reviews
Bell Hooks, Cornel West
South End Press, 1999
Inspiring!
Not only is this book insightful and easy to read, it is a must have for young African Americans to get a since of the legacy passed on to us from those generations before us, and it provides somewhat of a blueprint of how we can make a difference in our own lives as well as the lives of those around us. bell hooks and Cornel West are invaluable leaders in the African American community and you ...
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Art on My Mind: Visual Politics3 reviews
bell hooks
New Press, 1995
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by bell hooks
hooks challenges all who reads this book find the importance in their own histories. She makes the reader aware of the lack of representation of African American artists as well as the lack of representation of minorities and women in art history. She looks at more than just the injustice of the whole system but also the importance of images in peoples lives. hooks has a very refreshing ...
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