bell hooks reading list
In honor of bell hooks’ birthday and her literary contributions to the Black feminist movement, BFF has compiled a list of her works with links to where they can be purchased.
- Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
- All About Love
- Art on my Mind: Visual Politics
- Belonging: A Culture of Place
- Be Love, Baby Love
- Black Looks: Race and Representation
- Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
- Communion: The Female Search for Love
- Feminism is for Everybody
- Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
- Homemade Love
- Killing Rage
- Love as the Practice of Freedom
- Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
- Reel to Real: Race. Class and Sex at the Movies
- remember rapture: the writer at work
- Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
- Salvation: Black People and Love
- Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
- Talking Back: Thinking, Thinking Black
- Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
- Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
- Teaching To Transgress
- The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity & Love
- Where We Stand
- Woman’s Mourning Song
- Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
- Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics
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