![]() ![]() bell hooks featured in The Chronicle of Higher Educationin May 1995. She described her town as a "world where folks were content to get by on a little, where Baba, mama's mother, made soap, dug fishing worms, set traps for rabbits, made butter and wine, sewed quilts, and wrung the necks of chickens. In 1984, hooks published Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, in which she critiques mainstream white feminism for excluding the voices of women of color. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."īorn Gloria Jean Watkins on September 25, 1952, bell hooks grew up in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Notable Quote: "I will not have my life narrowed down.Published Works: "Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism," "Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center," "Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black," "Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics," "Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life" (with Cornel West), "Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom," "Killing Rage: Ending Racism," "All About Love: New Visions," "We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity".Education: Bachelor's, Stanford University, Master's, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ph.D, University of California, Santa Cruz.Parents: Veodis Watkins and Rosa Bell Watkins.Known For: Theorist, scholar, writer, and activist. ![]()
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