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ISBN: 9781685890803

Series Statement: Last Interview

Content: " Wide-ranging and insightful, this makes for a solid primer on hooks&rsquo, ideas. —Publishers Weekly I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.&mdash,ell hooks bell hooks was a prolific, trailblazing author, feminist, social activist, cultural critic, and professor. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, bell used her pen name to center attention on her ideas and to honor her courageous great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. hooks&rsquo, unflinching dedication to her work carved deep grooves for the feminist and anti-racist movements. In this collection of 7 interviews, stretching from early in her career until her last interview, she discusses feminism, the complexity of rap music and masculinity, her relationship to Buddhism, the &ldquo,olitic of domination,&rdquo,sexuality, and love and the importance of communication across cultural borders. Whether she was sparking controversy on campuses or facing criticism from contemporaries, hooks relentlessly challenged herself and those around her, inserted herself into the tensions of the cultural moment, and anchored herself with love."

Content: Biographisches: "Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks , was a social activist, cultural critic, femenist theorist, and an American author and social activist. Celebrated as one of our nation's leading public intellectual by The Atlantic Monthly , as well as one of Utne Reader 's 100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life, she was a charismatic speaker who divided her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. Sept 25, 1952 - Dec 15, 2021 (Introduction) Mikki Kendall is a New York Times bestselling writer, speaker, and blogger whose work has appeared in The Washington Post , The Boston Globe , The Guardian , Time , Salon , Ebony , Essence , ,nd elsewhere. She has discussed race, feminism, violence in Chicago, tech, pop culture, and social media on Good Morning Americ a, The Daily Show , NPR (among others), as well as at universities across the country. She is also the author of Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights and a co-editor of the Locus-nominated anthology Hidden Youth , as well as a part of the Hugo-nominated team of editors at Fireside Magazine . A veteran, she lives in Chicago with her family." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 22, 2023 The stimulating latest in Melville’s Last Interview series collects six conversations—spanning from 1989 to 2017—with feminist theorist bell hooks, who died in 2021. Speaking with sociologist Yvonne Zylan in 1989, hooks reflected on the contentious reception to a lecture she had given earlier that year at Yale Law School, maintaining that “a lot of the hostility that people feel towards me is that we simply do live in a world where women don’t often assert power, and that people get pissed off when women do.” Elsewhere, hooks critiques sexism in the writings of Thich Nhat Hanh, arguing in an interview with Tricycle magazine that the Buddhist monk’s disapproval of casual sex conforms with “very traditional” notions of women’s propriety. In a 1994 interview for Bomb Magazine , she castigates gangsta rap for its misogynistic lyrics even as she “embrace the rage... and the sense of powerlessness that undergirds it.” Other conversations touch on hooks’s ambivalence about her Kentucky upbringing, the importance of intersectionality, and obstacles to fulfilling relationships, demonstrating the incisive analysis of race and gender that earned her a devoted following. Wide-ranging and insightful, this makes for a solid primer on hooks’s ideas." Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 1, 2023 A controversial public intellectual speaks her mind. This collection of seven interviews with prominent Black feminist, activist, and theorist bell hooks (1952-2021), introduced by diversity consultant and essayist Mikki Kendall, reveals the evolution of hooks' thought from 1989 to 2017 as she reflected on important social and political issues of her time. In 1978, hooks, a college professor of English, changed her name from Gloria Jean Watkins as a way of affirming her identity--and honoring a feisty ancestor. Gloria Jean, given to me--really reflects how much my parents wanted me to be a very feminine, Southern belle type girl, hooks told an interviewer, and I think that in order to find my voice and use it, I had to use the name of my great-grandmother on a maternal side--bell hooks--in order to bring a self into being that my parents and my home were not nurturing. That self comes across as caring, passionate, and defiant,in more than 30 books and public presentations, hooks has been likely to hit raw nerves, delving into the possibilities of culture as a place of resistance to white supremacy, capitalism and patriarchy. Hooks contextualizes many of her books, including Where We Stand: Class Matters, Feminism Is for Everybody, and even her children's book Happy To Be Nappy. She discusses her eagerness to reach audiences outside of academia, which once led her to appear on the Ricki Lake talk show, where, she admitted, she was treated like shit. The interviews range over many topics, including hip-hop, Buddhism, sex, love, gender, lesbianism, the environment, the meaning of intersectionality, and capitalism. Any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, hooks asserts, would be better for the world than capitalism. A candid self-portrait of an important 20th-century thinker. COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

Language: English

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Author information: hooks, bell