bell hooks
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Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.
Known for
2024Becoming bell hooks
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2018Hillbilly
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2014bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice
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2004Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
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2002BaadAsssss Cinema
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1998I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
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1997My Feminism
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1997bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
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1995Black Is… Black Ain’t
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