Notable Quote: 'I will not have my life narrowed down.

Published Works: 'Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism,' 'Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center,' 'Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black,' 'Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics,' 'Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life' (with Cornel West), 'Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom,' 'Killing Rage: Ending Racism,' 'All About Love: New Visions,' 'We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity'.

Education: Bachelor's, Stanford University, Master's, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ph.D, University of California, Santa Cruz.Parents: Veodis Watkins and Rosa Bell Watkins.Known For: Theorist, scholar, writer, and activist.Hooks is always readable, but her takes on mass media here have a retro ring to them. A better book to buy for children, she suggests, might be her own recent Be Bop Buzz. Rowling's Harry Potterīooks, scornfully exposing them as foisted on us by 'rich white American men' and no more than updated version of the British schoolboy books that fueled the fantasies of Victoria's empire. Tools of the patriarchy, hooks saves her big guns for J.K. While she calls Will Smith films such as Men in Black It is not about connecting to someone else but rather releasing their own pain.' The men who can lead us out of patriarchal chains are 'men of color from poor countries, men who live in exile, men who have been victimized by imperialist male violence'-the Dalai Lama for example. She finds patriarchy plays a role in most socio-sexual ills, as boys and men seek alienating sex as a substitute for the love that often seems, because of demands on families that destroy them or keep them from forming, unavailable to men: 'Sex, then, becomes for most men a way of self-solacing.

In 12 slim chapters, hooks examines the stages of a man's life, from babyhood through boyhood to the teenage years into manhood. 10), hooks's 23rd book for adults is a fierce, quirky denunciation of patriarchy and a clarion call to the uncommitted to align themselves with visionary radical feminism. A companion to We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

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