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For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire to the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison.

In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharing that take place in domestic, secular, and sacred life.

In childhood, Bell Hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opinion. In this collection of personal and theoretical essays, Hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedagogy. Among her discoveries is that moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side, a gesture of defiance that heals, making new life and new growth possible.

In Homegrown, cultural critics Bell Hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, Hooks and Mesa-Bains invite listeners to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on political splits between people of color. A work of activism through dialogue, Homegrown is a declaration of solidarity that rings true even ten years after its first publication.

"Todo sobre el amor" ofrece nuevas formas radicales de pensar sobre el amor al mostrar su interconexión en nuestra vida privada y pública. En once capítulos concisos, hooks explica cómo nuestras nociones cotidianas de lo que significa dar y recibir amor a menudo nos fallan, y cómo estos ideales se establecen en la primera infancia. Ofrece un replanteamiento del amor propio (sin narcisismo) que aporta paz y compasión a nuestra vida personal y profesional, y defiende la importancia del amor para poner fin a las luchas entre individuos, comunidades y sociedades.

Perché abbiamo paura di parlare d’amore? Tutto sull’amore di bell hooks nasce da questa domanda che spesso genera imbarazzo, reticenza, e persino rabbia. Nonostante l’amore sia il sentimento più spontaneo e universale, che segna l’esistenza di ogni essere umano, parlarne, confessarlo a qualcuno, provare a raccontare come si agita dentro di noi ci terrorizza e ci disorienta: l’angoscia che le nostre parole non siano comprese, i nostri desideri corrisposti o i nostri sogni realizzati, genera un insensato odio per l’amore che tutti finiamo per vivere.

bell hooks, aclamada crítica cultural, continúa su exploración del significado del amor y nos ofrece una visión crítica e innovadora que sana la herida provocada por una sociedad carente de afecto. El amor nos afecta a todos, pero cada uno lo representa y lo experimenta de manera diferente debido a sus circunstancias personales. En este libro, bell hooks analiza cómo la experiencia del amor en las personas negras ha sido influenciada por factores sociales más amplios, como el racismo y la deshumanización que han sufrido por parte de otras razas.

Why do so many Black Americans—whether privileged or poor, urban or suburban, young or old—live in a state of chronic anxiety, fear, and shame? Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem breaks through collective denial and dares to imagine a more liberatory framework for understanding “self and identity in a world where loss is commonplace.” With visionary insight, hooks exposes the underlying reality that it has been difficult—if not impossible—for our nation to create a culture that promotes and sustains healthy self-esteem.

Íntima, reveladora y provocadora, Comunión es una obra que desafía a todas las mujeres a que asumamos el valor de reclamar la búsqueda del amor como el viaje heroico que todas debemos escoger para liberarnos de verdad.

What's Love Got to Do with It? – Warum Liebe(n) eine gesellschaftliche Notwendigkeit ist. "Dieses Buch, das sich mit der aktuellen Bedeutung der Liebe im Leben der Schwarzen befasst und eine Vorlage für das Überleben und die Selbstbestimmung der Schwarzen bieten soll, führt uns kühn zum Kern der Sache. Uns selbst mit Liebe zu begegnen, unser Schwarzsein zu lieben, ermöglicht uns allen, zur wahren Bedeutung von Freiheit, Hoffnung und einem Leben voller Möglichkeiten zurückzufinden".

"Frauen, die sich für die Liebe entscheiden, müssen klug, waghalsig und mutig sein." Ein großartiges Plädoyer für die Macht der Liebe. Liebe(n) geht uns alle an. Unsere Sehnsucht und Suche nach Liebe hören nie auf. Egal wie alt wir sind. Warum fällt es uns dennoch so schwer, den wahren Stellenwert der Liebe gesellschaftlich anzuerkennen? Weshalb verharren so viele Menschen in Beziehungen, die schon lange nicht mehr liebevoll sind? Wieso stoßen vor allem ältere Frauen mit ihrem Liebesbedürfnis an Grenzen? Wo kollidieren Geschlechterrollen mit Erwartungen?

En Enseñar a transgredir, bell hooks, escritora, maestra e intelectual insurgente, escribe sobre un nuevo tipo de educación, la educación como práctica de la libertad. Enseñar a los estudiantes a "transgredir" los límites raciales, sexuales y de clase para lograr el regalo de la libertad es, para hooks, el objetivo más importante del maestro.