bell hooks

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bell hooks was an influential American author, feminist theorist, and cultural critic known for her work on race, gender, class, and intersectionality.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf author
cultural critic
feminist theorist
human
birthName Gloria Jean Watkins
causeOfDeath kidney failure
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1952-09-25
dateOfDeath 2021-12-15
educatedAt Stanford University
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Wisconsin–Madison
ethnicGroup Black Americans
surface form: African American
fieldOfWork cultural studies
education
feminist theory
literary criticism
founded bell hooks Institute at Berea College
gender female
influenced contemporary Black feminist scholarship
critical pedagogy
intersectional feminist activism
influencedBy Audre Lorde
Paulo Freire
Sojourner Truth
Toni Morrison
knownFor Black feminist thought
cultural criticism
feminist pedagogy
intersectional analysis of race, gender, and class
movement Black feminist movement
surface form: Black feminism

anti-capitalism
anti-racism
intersectional feminism
notableWork Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism
All About Love: New Visions
Black Looks: Race and Representation
Communion: The Female Search for Love
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Salvation: Black People and Love
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
occupation professor
public intellectual
social activist
writer
placeOfBirth Hopkinsville, Kentucky
surface form: Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States
placeOfDeath Berea, Kentucky
surface form: Berea, Kentucky, United States
pseudonym bell hooks
religion Christianity
taughtAt Berea College
City College of New York
Oberlin College
Yale University
thematicFocus education as liberation
intersection of race, gender, and class
love and social justice
representation in popular culture
writingLanguage English
writingStyle accessible theoretical prose

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Berea College hasAlumni bell hooks
this entity surface form: Bell Hooks
bell hooks pseudonym bell hooks
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