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\"In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship--in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film--and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: 'The essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert.' As students, scholars, activists, intellectuals, and any other readers who have engaged with the book since its original release in 1992 can attest, that's exactly what these pieces do\"-- Provided by publisher.

In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharing that take place in domestic, secular, and sacred life where people come together to give themselves, to nurture life, to renew their spirits, sustain their hopes, and to make a lived politics of revolutionary struggle an ongoing practice. This 25th anniversary edition continues the dialogue with \"In Solidarity,\" their 2016 conversation at the bell hooks Institute on racism, politics, popular culture and the contemporary Black experience. Preface to the New Edition Introduction 1. Black Men and Women: partnership in the 1990s 2. Introduction to Cornel West 3. Cornel West interviewed by bell hooks 4. Introduction to bell hooks 5. bell hooks interviewed by Cornel West 6. Dialogue between bell hooks and Cornel West 7. Dialogue between bell hooks and Cornel West 8. The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual 9. Black Women Intellectuals Bibliography Praise for the book: \" bell hooks and Cornel West's wonderful volume is theoretical poetry, poetic theory...The scope of topics addressed in the far-ranging conversations between the two authors is breathtaking...[The book] not only theorizes about how a transformed intellectual power might fuse deep moral concern and political engagement--it actually does it.\"-- Patricia Hill Collins, Signs (Autumn, 1994) \"A series of dialogues between and interviews with two of the foremost black intellectuals in America today, this volume is of enormous importance and offers rewarding reading.\"-- Publishers Weekly A cultural critic, an intellectual, and a feminist writer, bell hooks is best known for classic books including Feminist Theory , Bone Black , All About Love , Rock My Soul , Belonging , We Real Cool , Where We Stand , Teaching to Transgress , Teaching Community , Outlaw Culture , and Reel to Real .hooks is Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, and resides in her home state of Kentucky. Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has written over 20 books and edited 13, including Race Matters , Democracy Matters , Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud , Black Prophetic Fire , and Radical King . Dr. West is a frequent guest on Real Time with Bill Maher , The Colbert Report , CNN, C-Span and Democracy Now.

Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them.

\"In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle, Hooks articulates the link between self-recovery and political resistance. Both an expression of the joy of self-healing and the need to be ever vigilant in the struggle for equality, Sisters of the Yam continues to speak to the experience of black womanhood\"-- Provided by publisher.

What are the conditions needed for our nation to bridge cultural and racial divides? By \"writing beyond race,\" noted cultural critic bell hooks models the constructive ways scholars, activists, and readers can challenge and change systems of domination. In the spirit of previous classics like Outlaw Culture and Reel to Real, this new collection of compelling essays interrogates contemporary cultural notions of race, gender, and class. From the films Precious and Crash to recent biographies of Malcolm X and Henrietta Lacks, hooks offers provocative insights into the way race is being talked about in this \"post-racial\" era.

\"What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives--to see that feminism is for everybody\"-- Provided by publisher.

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previous best-selling volumes in her Teaching series, Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community. The issues are varied and broad, from whether meaningful teaching can take place in a large classroom setting to confronting issues of self-esteem. One professor, for example, asked how black female professors can maintain positive authority in a classroom without being seen through the lens of negative racist, sexist stereotypes. One teacher asked how to handle tears in the classroom, while another wanted to know how to use humor as a tool for learning. Addressing questions of race, gender, and class in this work, hooks discusses the complex balance that allows us to teach, value, and learn from works written by racist and sexist authors. Highlighting the importance of reading, she insists on the primacy of free speech, a democratic education of literacy. Throughout these essays, she celebrates the transformative power of critical thinking. This is provocative, powerful, and joyful intellectual work. It is a must read for anyone who is at all interested in education today.

\"When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news,\" writes bell hooks. \"If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse.\" In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the first page. Her title-- We Real Cool ; her subject--the way in which both white society and weak black leaders are failing black men and youth. Her subject is taboo: \"this is a culture that does not love black males:\" \"they are not loved by white men, white women, black women, girls or boys. And especially, black men do not love themselves . How could they? How could they be expected to love, surrounded by so much envy, desire, and hate?\" bell hooks is one of our leading social and cultural critics. Among her more than twenty books is Salvation: Black People and Love and Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem . Four titles are published by Routledge: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom , Outlaw Culture , Reel to Real , and Where We Stand: Class Matters .