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Salvation : Black people and love / bell hooks.
Van Pelt Library E185.86 .H739 2001
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Van Pelt - Class of 1979 Seminar Room (305) E185.86 .H739 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- hooks, bell, 1952-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- African Americans--Psychology.
- Love--United States.
- Love.
- Man-woman relationships--United States.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Friendship.
- United States.
- Friendship--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 225 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow, 2001.
- Summary:
- Acclaimed visionary and intellectual, bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation with the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love. Intimate and revolutionary, Salvation is a gift as provocative as it is healing.
- Written from a historical and cultural perspective, Salvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African-Americans. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships, and marriage in black life, the prose and poetry of Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou, the liberation movements of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, sexual pain or pleasure, hip-hop and gangsta rap culture, addiction, greed, or the failure of black leadership, hooks lets us know what love's got to do with it.
- Combining the passionate politics of W. E. B. DuBois with fresh, contemporary insights, hooks brilliantly offers new visions that will heal our nation's wounds from a culture of lovelessness.
- Her writings on love and its inextricable links to race, class, family, history, and popular culture raise one pivotal question: How can we create beloved American communities? Salvation is bell hooks's journey to answer this question -- an offering for everyone who cares about the souls of black folk.
- Contents:
- Introduction: love is our hope xv
- 1 The heart of the matter 3
- 2 We wear the mask 18
- 3 The issue of self-love 32
- 4 Valuing ourselves rightly 55
- 5 Moving beyond shame 71
- 6 Mama love 93
- 7 Cherishing single mothers 113
- 8 Loving black masculinity
- fathers, lovers, friends 128
- 9 Heterosexual love
- union and reunion 154
- 10 Embracing gayness
- unbroken circles 188
- 11 Loving justice 209.
- ISBN:
- 0060184949
- OCLC:
- 44794858
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