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bell hookstaught the world two things: how to critique and how to love.

Here are nine texts Id suggest to anyone seeking to acquaint or reacquaint themselves with her work.
She refused to let white feminism or abolitionist men alone define this chapter of Americas past.
But that wasnt the end of her scholarly journey by a long shot.
In turn, she often reflected on what she learned from teaching in her writings.
So I wanted you to talk about that a little bit.
It is a literary homecoming that frames her homegoing.