Addressing questions of race, gender and class in this work, Hooks discusses the complex balance that allows us to teach, value, and learn from works written by racist and sexist authors. Highlighting the importance of reading, she...

bell hooks assures her readers that the crisis affecting the black male spirit must--and can--be addressed. In this taboo-breaking book she names the strategies that can ensure black males live fully and well. von hooks, bell

Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan coop boards, bell hooks, one of America's most admired writers, delivers a successful black woman's reflection on how dilemmas of class and race are intertwined. Pub...