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Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American philosopher, educator, author, and social critic; she was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in Kentucky. Professor hooks wrote about race, feminism, and social class. Her work explored the intersections of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuat…
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culture · American author and activist (1952–2021) · philosopher · university teacher · writer · non-fiction writer · literary scholar · also bell hooks, Bell hooks, hooks
Born 25 September 1952 · Died 15 December 2021 · Q259507
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2026· 18 entries
Fox News: An open marriage somehow leads to regret, woman hooks best friend up with sister's ex & dumb divorce excuses
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Texarkana Gazette: Hooks, Texas, City Council sets new vote on suspended police chief
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KMTR: Preseason Biletnikoff watch list includes Oregon's Iverson Hooks and Jamari Johnson
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MLB.com: Gameday: RockHounds at Hooks, Probable Pitchers, Lineups, and more
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University of Oregon Athletics: Biletnikoff Award Recognizes Hooks, Johnson - University of Oregon Athletics
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VICE: Born 57 Years Ago Today, Snoop Dogg’s Cousin and Hip-Hop’s Undisputed 'King of Hooks' Who Defined Countless West Coast Classics
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The Hindu: bell hooks: a pioneer of intersectional feminism
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Texarkana Gazette: A new chapter: Hooks, Texas, community working to open library after a nearly a decade without one
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Trendencias: Bell Hooks resumió en 1984 el feminismo en una sola frase. Y quizá siga siendo la mejor definición que existe
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Community Newspaper Group: Waverly Kids Cove hooks Waverly youth through river, recreation and community
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98.5 KYGO: Hey y'all, Hannah Dasher serves up hooks, homilies and homecookin' for dummies | Music City Minute
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Indie Boulevard Magazine: Punk Hooks and Scraped-Knuckle Energy Run Through Blister’s numb
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MLB.com: Gameday: Hooks at Wind Surge, Probable Pitchers, Lineups, and more
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Yahoo Sports: Stop Pushes And Hooks
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Legacy obituary: Melvin Hooks Obituary (2026) - New London, CT - Lester Gee Funeral Home, Inc. - New London
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The Guardian: The best shower curtains and hooks of 2026, including plastic-free options
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The Guardian: Olivia Rodrigo review – crushing riffs and infectious hooks at secret New York show
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2024· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Author bell hooks once said, "Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."” Correct Attribution.
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2021· 3 entries
Bell hooks died from kidney failure at her home in Berea, Kentucky, aged 69
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Died 2021-12-15.
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“Today’s fashion magazines may carry an article about the dangers of anorexia while bombarding its readers with images of emaciated young bodies representing the height of beauty and desirability.”
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2020· 3 entries
During the George Floyd protests, there was a resurgence of interest in hooks' work on racism, feminism, and capitalism
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Where she was described as "that rare rock star of a public intellectual who reaches wide by being accessible"
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With her book All About Love: New Visions entering the New York Times bestseller list over 20 years after its publication
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2019· 1 entry
Min Jin Lee said that Ain't I a Woman "remains a radical and relevant work of political theory
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2017· 1 entry
Hooks revealed that she was single while they discussed her love life, saying "I don't have a partner
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2016· 1 entry
“capitalist money-making at its best”
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2014· 2 entries
Hooks also founded the bell hooks Institute at Berea College
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The bell hooks Institute was founded at Berea College; in 2017 she donated her papers to the college
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2004· 1 entry
Joined Berea College as Distinguished Professor in Residence
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2002· 1 entry
Hooks gave a commencement speech at Southwestern University
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1994· 1 entry
As distinguished professor of English at City College of New York
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1992· 1 entry
Naming it "one of the twenty most influential women's books in the last 20 years"
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded American Book Awards (1991).
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1983· 2 entries
After several years of teaching and writing, hooks completed her doctorate in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a dissertation on author Toni Morrison entitled "Keeping a Hold on Life: Reading
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Studied at University of California, Santa Cruz, Doctor of Philosophy (1983).
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1981· 1 entry
Though she had started writing it years earlier at the age of 19, while still an undergraduate
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1976· 3 entries
As an English professor and senior lecturer in ethnic studies at the University of Southern California
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Teaching English and ethnic studies at the University of Southern California
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Studied at University of Wisconsin–Madison, Master of Arts (1976).
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1973· 1 entry
Studied at Stanford University, Bachelor of Arts (1973).
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1952· 2 entries
To a working-class African-American family, in Hopkinsville, a small, segregated town in Kentucky
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Born 1952-09-25.
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