Salvation: Black People and Love: 3 - Brossura

Hooks, Bell

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ISBN 10: 0060959495 ISBN 13: 9780060959494

Casa editrice: William Morrow & Co, 2016

Riassunto

Challenging the legacy of slavery, colonization, and ongoing racism that portrays African-American people as unable to love, the acclaimed author of All About Love explores how the ethic of love has become the foundation of hope and survival in the African-American community. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Bell Hooks is a cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. 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 is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks is the author of more than 17 books, including All About Love: New Visions; RememberedRapture: The Writer at Work; Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life; Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood; Killing Rage: Ending Racism; Art on My Mind: Visual Politics; and Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. She lives in New York City.

Product Description:

Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love.Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of our most revered artists and leaders, the liberation movements of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, or hip-hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets us know what love's got to do with it.Salvation is work that helps us heal -- and shows us how to create beloved American communities.

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• Editore: William Morrow & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0060959495
• ISBN 13: 9780060959494
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256