New Releases by bell hooks

With her customary boldness and insight, bell hooks describes a woman''s struggle to devote herself to writing, sharing the difficulties, the triumphs, the pleasures, and the dangers.

One of our country’s premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must go 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 are written from a black and feminist perspective, and they tackle the bitter difficulties of racism by envisioning a world without it. They address a spectrum of topics having 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; and internalized racism in movies and the media. And in the title essay, hooks 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 positive change. bell hooks is Distinguished Professor of English at City College of New York. She is the author of the memoir Bone Black as well as eleven other books. She lives in New York City.

A feminist thinker and author writes not a chronological narrative of her life but a series of impressions as the young girl that she was became aware of segregation, civil rights, family ties, spirituality, and her own sexuality. 30,000 first printing.

The controversial art world of Andres Serrano.

Poetry celebrating the way in which African Americans celebrate the passing of the spirit.

Hooks and West share roots in the black church, and have a commitment to the life of the mind and feminism. This book takes the form of a dialog that explores diverse aspects of modern African American culture: the spiritual crisis in the black community; conservatism among the black middle class; the new black nationalism; depictions of African Americans in popular culture; and uses of black icons by modern political leaders. Of particular interest are their discussions of gender and politics; and their hope that their own intellectual engagement can serve as a model for new kinds of relationships between black men and women. ISBN 0-89608-415-9: $25.00.

bell hooks writes about the meaning of feminist consciousness in daily life and about self-recovery, about overcoming white and male supremacy, and about intimate relationships, exploring the point where the public and private meet.

Na coletânea de ensaios críticos reunidos em Olhares negros, bell hooks interroga narrativas e discute a respeito de formas alternativas de observar a negritude, a subjetividade das pessoas negras e a branquitude. Ela foca no espectador — em especial, no modo como a experiência da negritude e das pessoas negras surge na literatura, na música, na televisão e, sobretudo, no cinema —, e seu objetivo é criar uma intervenção radical na forma como nós falamos de raça e representação. Em suas palavras, “os ensaios de Olhares negros se destinam a desafiar e inquietar, a subverter e serem disruptivos”. Como podem atestar os estudantes, pesquisadores, ativistas, intelectuais e todos os outros leitores que se relacionaram com o livro desde sua primeira publicação, em 1992, é exatamente isso o que estes textos conseguem.