Hooks: 86 books

When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented...

If Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs represented the Animation industry’s infancy, Ed Hooks thinks that the current production line of big-budget features is its artistically awkward adolescence. While a well-funded marketing machine can conceal structural flaws, uneven performances and...

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's...

GRUMP GROAN GROWL Bad mood on the prowl Some days the grumpies just take over. So don't let that anger build up--embrace your feelings, overcome your aggression, and be your best self. In other words: Just let those feelings be Just let them pass Just go inside And let it slide bell hooks honest text...

Displacing Whiteness makes a unique contribution to the study of race dominance. Its theoretical innovations in the analysis of whiteness are integrated with careful, substantive explorations of whiteness on an international, multiracial, cross-class, and gendered terrain. Contributors localize whiteness,...

Along the way in life, we pick up some things and add them to our basket, while other things, we only glance at. This short read looks at both.To know love, is...

In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television,...

In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. Nowhere is that more true than in Appalachian studies -- a field which brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation...

If I had the whole world in my hand I would plan To save my world from sinking sands It would not be enough Just to cup them And love them Disrupt them, their flesh, and again I would show them how I wont bow Out of the fight for their lives I cant lie To my child I wont leave them in bile, be they...

In this book, Dr. Dorothy E. Hooks lets us know that Christ has already made it possible for us to win the battle in our minds. He has condemned sin in the flesh, causing us to be able to defeat Satan with the power He has given us. We must have our minds transformed into the Word of God, so we can know...

Raised by a single mother and a product of the Rion Lane housing project in Cincinnati, Ohio, author Stephen E. Hooks narrates both his memories and his discoveries as he struggled throughout the course of his life to establish his identity as an African American man. Before I Loved Her, I Healed...

This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...

A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more. In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the...

It is in my quiet time, when I spend time with God, nature or self, that I write the works like the ones in this book. Whether it is by natural or supernatural inspiration, the poems in this volume are a part of my thoughts my ponderings. Designed to uplift, enlighten, give perspective and enjoyment,...