Additional Information on bell hooks

Overview

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* bell hooks earned a B.A. from Stanford University in 1973, an M.A. From the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976, and a Ph.D. From UC Santa Cruz in 1983. She launched a career in academia in 1976, when she began a three-year stint as an English professor and Ethnic Studies lecturer at the University of Southern California. She subsequently taught at several post-secondary institutions in the early 1980s, including UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, and Yale University. In 1988 she became a professor of Women’s Studies at Oberlin College, and in 1995 she joined the faculty of the City College of New York.

Below is a list of bell hooks’s books and papers:

• Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism (1981, 2nd ed. 2014)
• All About Love: New Visions (2000)
• And There We Wept: Poems (1978)
• Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (2012)
• Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (1995)
• Be Boy Buzz (2002)
• Belonging: A Culture of Place (2009)
• Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992, 2nd ed. 2014)
• Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (1996)
• Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (1991) (with Cornel West)
• Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002)
• Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2000, 2nd ed. 2014)
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984, 3rd ed. 2014)
• Grump Groan Growl (2008)
• Happy to be Nappy (1999)
• Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism (2006)
• Homemade Love (2002)
• Justice: Childhood Love Lessons (2000)
• Killing Rage: Ending Racism (1995)
• Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (1994)
• Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies (1996)
• Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work (1999)
• Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-esteem (2003)
• Salvation: Black People and Love (2001)
• Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-recovery (1993, 2nd ed. 2014)
• Skin Again (2004)
• Soul Sister: Women, Friendship, and Fulfillment (2005)
• Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (1989, 2nd ed. 2014)
• Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003)
• Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (2010)
• Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom(1994)
• We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (2004)
• Where We Stand: Class Matters (2000)
• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2003)
• Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life (1997)
• Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice (2013)
• Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (1990, 2nd ed. 2014)