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Questions for bell hooks

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If you could ask bell hooks 3 questions, what would you ask her?

bell hooks is coming to Lewis & Clark College!

An evening with bell hooks
bell hooksWednesday, February 1, 2006 at 7 p.m.
Agnes Flanagan Chapel
bell hooks

A passionate scholar, Bell Hooks is among the leading public intellectuals of her generation. Although hooks is mainly known as a feminist theorist, her writings cover a broad range of topics on gender, race, teaching and the significance of media for contemporary culture. She strongly believes that these topics can not be addressed separately, but must be understood as being interconnected. Like Paulo Freire, hooks sees education as the practice of freedom, Profoundly influenced by Freire, she sees his ideas as affirming her “right as a subject in resistance to define reality” (Teaching to Transgress, p. 53). She has written over 20 books including, “Feminist Theory from Margin to Center”, “Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics”, “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life” (Co-authored with Cornel West), and “Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom”.

Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1952, hooks, received her B.A. from Stanford University in 1973, her M.A. in 1976 from the University of Wisconsin and her Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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Tickets are no longer available.
There will be a free simulcast in Templeton Student Center, Council Chamber.

hooks’ book Teaching Community changed my views on life as a higher education professional. It is an extremely powerful book.

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Written by Eric Stoller

January 28th, 2006 at 2:22 pm

Posted in Feminism,Race,Social Justice

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  • Zuri Inge

    1. How long will you teach in the south ?
    2. Will you speak in Michigan soon?
    3. Why not come to wayne state university ?

  • Zuri Inge

    Very good website information.
    I like scholar bell hooks approach to popular culture.

  • http://ericstoller.com/blog/ Eric Dwight

    Zuri,

    Thanks for your comments. I’m sorry I won’t get to ask bell your questions. She was in Oregon last week…here’s a site with a lot of bell’s interviews (print and audio).

  • najia

    bell has plalyed an active role in fro-american literature i wish her good life .like her so much so that i decided to talk about her in my research “literature of necessity” and i chose her to be the representative of afro- american literature . if any body have any information about feed back my msn is”betterfly1001@hotmail.com ” thanks

  • najia

    im from morocco and my research paper is about bell hooks if any one has information about her crutique or people feedback plz sent it to me via msn :betterfly1001@hotmail.com thanx

  • Diana Henry

    Where is Bell Hooks currently teaching?

  • http://ericstoller.com/blog/ Eric Stoller

    I believe she is at Berea College in Kentucky. bell hooks is the Distinguished Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Women’s Studies.