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Writing beyond race : living theory and practice / bell hooks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- hooks, bell, 1952-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 199 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Summary:
- 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 or domination.
- In the spirit of previous classics like Outlaw Culture and Reel to Real, this hew collection of compelling essays interrogates contemporary cultural notions of race, gender, and class. From the films Precious and Crash to recent biographies or Malcolm X and Henrietta Lacks, hooks offers provocative insights into the way race is being talked about in this "post racial" era.
- A cultural critic, an intellectual, and a feminist, writer, bell hooks is best known for classic books including Ain't I a Woman, 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Racism : naming what hurts
- Moving past blame : embracing diversity
- Solidarity : women and race relations
- Help wanted : re-imagining the past
- Interrogating : the reinvention of Malcolm X
- Tragic biography : resurrecting Henrietta Lacks
- A path away from race : on spiritual conversion
- Talking trash : a dialogue about crash
- A pornography of violence : the movie precious
- A community of caring
- Bonding across boundaries
- Everyday resistance : saying no to white supremacy
- Against mediocrity
- Black self-determination
- Ending racism : working for change
- Writing beyond race
- The practice of love.
- ISBN:
- 9780415539142
- 0415539145
- 9780415539159
- 0415539153
- 9780203108499
- 0203108493
- OCLC:
- 783168974
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