Bone Black : memories of girlhood / bell hooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

hooks, bell, 1952-2021.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

hooks, bell, 1952-2021--Childhood and youth.

hooks, bell, 1952-2021.

African Americans--Biography.

African American women--Biography.

Feminists--United States--Biography.

Feminists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 183 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1996.

Summary:

A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Back shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming a writer. She learns early on the roles women and men play in society, as well as the impotence of children, especially black female children. She sheds new light on a society that beholds the joys of marriage for men and condemns anything more than silence for women. In this world, too, black is a woman's color - worn when earned - daughters and daddy are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about. In school, hooks sees that integration most resembles corralling, with black children herded, prodded, and pushed like cattle. And the learning agenda is to teach these children to forget their history and the injustices done to them and to embrace the ways of white folk. hooks finds comfort in solitude, good company in books. She also discovers, in the motionless body of misunderstanding, that writing is the most vital breath. She is taught by an elder that quilting is the way a woman learns patience. And hooks's patience, coupled with the insight and bravery that readers have come to expect from her, is rewarded with the strength to keep in touch with the wounded parts of herself and to grow beyond the scars by stretching the confines of history, tradition, and family to encompass her expansive spirit.

Notes:

"First Edition-1996."

"Designed by Michelle McMillian."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0805041451

OCLC:

34356274