bell hooks

Acting·Sep 25, 1952·Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA

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Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.

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Becoming bell hooks2024 · Self	Self
Hillbilly2018 · Self	Self
bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice2014 · Self	Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me2004 · Self	Self
BaadAsssss Cinema2002 · Self	Self
I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America1998 · Self	Self
My Feminism1997 · Self	Self
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation1997 · Self	Self
Black Is… Black Ain’t1995 · Self	Self