SALVATION
Black People and Love
bell hooks
£9.99
'a brave, intelligent, vulnerable look at the most sought-after and least examined emotion'
Gloria Steinem on All About Love
Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks offers groundbreaking critical insight in this new book which traces the ethic of love in the context of black lives. She examines the literary debate on love and dehumanisation in the work of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, and representations of love in films and TV programmes like The Cosby Show. She talks to rappers: she traces the history of love from slavery, through the words of Martin Luther King and the Black Power Movement, up to today. moving on to role models, she considers black single mothers, black lesbians and gays and the devastating effect on the black community of the deaths of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Continuing the exploration begun in All About Love, bell hooks here suggests new visions to heal wounds inflicted by a culture of lovelessness.
bell hooks
cultural critic, feminist theorist and writer, is Distinguished Professor of English at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is renowned for her books on race and feminism. She is the author of more than sixteen books, including the acclaimed Ain't I a Woman, and her memoirs, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood, Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life and Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work have all been published by The Women's Press. bell hooks lives in New York City.