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Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her unique pseudonym from the name of her grandmother, an intelligent and strong-willed African American woman who inspired her to stand up against a dominating and repressive society. Her poetry, novels, memoirs, and children's books reflect her Appalachian upbringing and feature her struggles with racially integrated schools and unwelcome authority figures. One of \u003ci\u003eUtne Reader\u003c\/i\u003e's \"100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life,\" hooks has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAppalachian Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e, bell hooks continues her work as an imagist of life's harsh realities in a collection of poems inspired by her childhood in the isolated hills and hidden hollows of Kentucky. At once meditative, confessional, and political, this poignant volume draws the reader deep into the experience of living in Appalachia. Touching on such topics as the marginalization of its people and the environmental degradation it has suffered over the years, hooks's poetry quietly elegizes the slow loss of an identity while also celebrating that which is constant, firmly rooted in a place that is no longer whole.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kentucky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51999238455581,"sku":"9780813136691","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/1259\/2413\/files\/imageloader_b508946c-2c55-47d9-b1bb-7d03d67e862d.jpg?v=1783625304"},{"product_id":"killing-rage-ending-racism","title":"Killing Rage: Ending Racism","description":"One of our country's premier cultural and social critics, the author of such powerful and influential books as Ain't I a Woman and Black Looks, Bell Hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must be achieved hand in hand. But whereas many women have been recognized for their writing on gender politics, the female voice has been all but locked out of the public discourse on race. Killing Rage speaks to this imbalance. These twenty-three essays, most of them new works, are written from a black and feminist perspective, and they tackle the bitter difficulties of racism by envisioning a world without it. Hooks defiantly creates positive plans for the future rather than dwell in theories of a crisis beyond repair. The essays here address a spectrum of topics to do with race and racism in the United States: psychological trauma among African Americans; friendship between black women and white women; anti-Semitism and racism; internalized racism in the movies and media. Hooks presents a challenge to the patriarchal family model, explaining how it perpetuates sexism and oppression in black life. She calls out the tendency of much of mainstream America to conflate \"black rage\" with murderous, pathological impulses, rather than seeing it as a positive state of being. And in the title essay she writes about the \"killing rage\" - the fierce anger of black people stung by repeated instances of everyday racism - finding in that rage a healing source of love and strength, and a catalyst for productive change. Her analysis is rigorous and her language unsparingly critical, but Hooks writes with a common touch that has made her a favorite of readers far from universities.Bell Hooks's work contains multitudes; she is a feminist who includes and celebrates men, a critic of racism who is not separatist or Afrocentric, an academic who cares about popular culture.","brand":"Holt Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51999240814877,"sku":"9780805050271","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/1259\/2413\/files\/imageloader_ddee15db-1721-426e-8be0-baf6acc62cfc.jpg?v=1783625306"},{"product_id":"art-on-my-mind-visual-politics","title":"Art on My Mind: Visual Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe canonical work of cultural criticism by the \"profoundly influential critic\" (Artnet), in a beautiful thirtieth-anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword by esteemed visual artist Mickalene Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Sharp and persuasive.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e on the original publication of \u003ci\u003eArt on My Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArt on My Mind, \"one of the country's most influential feminist thinkers\" (\u003cem\u003eArtforum\u003c\/em\u003e) offers a tender yet potent suite of writings for a world increasingly concerned with art and identity politics. 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