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Writer, professor, and social critic bell hooks was born Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, but has written for many years under the pseudonym "bell hooks" (all lower-case letters) in tribute to her great-grandmother, a woman "who spoke her mind, a woman who was not afraid to talk back." Following a B.A. at Stanford, an M.A. at the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she embarked on an enviable academic career, first as an assistant professor of African-American Studies and English Literature at Yale, followed by positions in American Literature and Women’s Studies at Oberlin College and in Black Studies at the City College of New York, where she currently teaches. Her prolific and controversial publications have included Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981), Feminist Theory: For Margin to Center (1984), Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (1989), Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (1990), Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992), Killing Rage: Ending Racism (1995), Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem (2003), and We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (2004). Her works always raise important cultural issues, particularly with regard to the goals of feminism and the place of black women within the movement. Related Readings and Other Background Information
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