Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

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South End Press, 1989 - Social Science - 184 pages
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.
 

Contents

some opening remarks
1
talking back
2
coming to voice
3
a transformational politic 1
4
5 on selfrecovery
5
a radical agenda
6
ethical issues
7
toward a revolutionary feminist pedagogy
8
a comment
13
a comment
14
a comment
105
a comment
112
homophobia in black communities
120
a comment whose pussy is this a feminist comment 20 black women writing creating more space 105 112 120
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looking back
148
writing autobiography
155

reflections on graduate school
9
class and education
11
a feminist perspective
12
on using a pseudonym interview
160
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About the author (1989)

Bell Hooks was born Gloria Watkins on September 25, 1952. She grew up in a small Southern community that gave her a sense of belonging as well as a sense of racial separation. She has degrees from Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has served as a noted activist and social critic and has taught at numerous colleges. Hooks uses her great-grandmother's name to write under as a tribute to her ancestors. Hooks writes daring and controversial works that explore African-American female identities. In works such as Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism and Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black, she points out how feminism works for and against black women. Oppressed since slavery, black women must overcome the dual odds of race and gender discrimination to come to terms with equality and self-worth.