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The Black feminist theorist and activist bell hooks has died. Here’s a small selection of her work to read for free on JSTOR.
“This emphasis on woman’s silence may be an accurate remembering of what has taken place in the households of women from WASP backgrounds in the United States but in black communities (and in other diverse ethnic communities) women have not been silent. Their voices can be heard. Certainly for black women our struggle has not been to emerge from silence into speech but to change the nature and direction of our speech. To make a speech that compels listeners, one that is heard.”
“For me teaching is political work and the classroom a space for radical political action. It is subversive to make the university a site for education for critical consciousness, for politicization—and it is difficult. It is not a course of action that ensures acceptance or prolonged employment.”
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By: bell hooks
Discourse, Vol. 8, SHE, THE INAPPROPRIATE/D OTHER (Fall-Winter 86-87), pp. 123-128
Wayne State University Press
By: bell hooks
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, No. 36 (1989), pp. 15-23
Drake Stutesman; Wayne State University Press
By: bell hooks
Feminist Review, No. 23, Socialist-Feminism: Out of the Blue (Summer, 1986), pp. 125-138
Sage Publications, Inc.
