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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black Paperback – July 1, 1999

by Bell Hooks (Author)

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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.

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Hooks, a pen name for Gloria Watkins, the author of Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism , here gathers essays that also focus on being black and feminist in America. She begins by recounting painful personal experiences: growing up in a repressive, Southern, "father-dominated household," attending a segregated high school, struggling to find her own, persuasive voice and become a writer, and learning to deal with racism and sexism while studying at "predominately white universities" in Wisconsin and California. Hooks then moves on to a general discussion of the women's movement and how "white supremacy" in our society adversely affects it. Although the author makes perceptive and provocative observations, they are diminished by redundancy and weakened by her doctrinaire Marxist rhetoric: "In resistance, the exploited, the oppressed work to expose the false realityto reclaim and recover ourselves. We make the revolutionary history." In addition, the author employs labels such as "got everything White people." Ultimately, she fails to convince or even to use her own voice.
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Activist/academician hooks ( Ain't I a Woman: Black Women & Feminism and Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center ) has here collected 23 of her angry, intelligent, critical, and compelling essays on subjects as diverse as writing autobiography, teaching women's literature, black homophobia, intimate violence, racist feminists, black porn, and politics at Yale. Her blend of the personal and theoretical, political and intellectual, provides a unique perspective on issues of current concern among blacks, women, and educators. Her writing is lucid, confrontational, and challengingsure to offend a few but, it is to be hoped, sought after by those whose collections include the original, humorous, and courageous. Beverly Miller, Boise State Univ. Lib., Id.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Paperback: 186 pages
Publisher: South End Press; Wavy Pages But Clean Copy edition (July 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0896083527
ISBN-13: 978-0896083523
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
Average Customer Review: 8 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #830,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1802 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Women's Studies > Feminist Theory
- #4403 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Specific Demographics > African-American Studies
- #7139 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Gender Studies

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Deirdre Jones

Love Bell Hooks

May 3, 2010

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I frist read this book for my Feminist Theory class. I could really relate to Hooks graduate experience. I am using the book as part of my thesis. It's a perfect read for African American women who are struggling with race issues during their graduate studies. It is frank and truthful.

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SweetPea

Book makes you think

January 7, 2014

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The book came in excellent condition before the projected delivery date. The content of the book is pretty good. I have read some other things by bell hooks that I did not care for, but this book is very on point.

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December 21, 2014

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Best book for women who feel pressure from society to keep quiet.

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Antoinette Lillie

Great Book!

January 7, 2014

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This is a great book and a great book to use for discussion in women studies classes. I enjoyed this book.

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Connie Cornejo

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August 3, 2015

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Book was in good condition

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augustine

WHAT IS THINKING BLACK I CAN,T WAITE TO FINISH BOOK

September 10, 2013

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I BOUGHT FOR MY SISTER BUT I AM ENJOYING READING THIS SO MUCH. PEOPLE DON'T THINK ANY MORE JUST REACT TO THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES

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Michael Bowen

A New Way of Knowing

March 17, 2000

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i'm one of those individuals who believes that frued was a fraud. and i might be indulging in some essentialist solopsism when i assert that there was never anything he said that would or could be of any value to this black man. but to the extent that i can function well in the world without any deference to freud's notions of mental health and self-regard, i might be onto something. i can say without a doubt that hooks and west were powerfully instrumental in helping me deal with my existential demons by contextualizing my struggle to be recognized as a thinking man who is black in american society. as the old gospel song says 'the burdens of my heart rolled away'.
there are many ways that i changed myself by changing my thinking. i was able to do so without discarding my background, which our society so often demands of african americans. this is something bell hooks was able to uniquely communicate to me in 'talking back: thinking feminist, thinking black'.
once upon a time in america, black children were not supposed to look at white adults eye to eye. we knew it was wrong, but we didn't know why and so we didn't say anything. hooks comes from all those places, and understands what's wrong with that and uses her considerable intellect to set our souls and our minds in balance. minds that were once shut down while our souls cried out can now work with the tools hooks crafts and put us sensibly back - clear eyed and straight up.

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rainqueen

A gift

January 19, 2003

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Required reading not only for feminists - both men and women -but for writers and other artists. Valuable for all humans who have been silenced at some point in their lives. Since that includes most children, this book has much to offer all of us.
Her observations are wise. Her grasp of history is absolute. Her ideas stimulate intelligent and loving thought, conversation, and action. Read this book.

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