Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking BlackIn childhood, bell hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opinion. In this collection of personal and theoretical essays, hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedagogy. Among her discoveries is that moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side, a gesture of defiance that heals, making new life and new growth possible. |
Contents
Coming to Voice | |
A Transformational Politic | |
On SelfRecovery | |
A Radical Agenda | |
Ethical Issues | |
A Comment | |
A Comment | |
A Comment | |
A Comment | |
Homophobia in Black Communities | |
A Comment | |
A Feminist Comment | |
Creating More Space | |
Toward a Revolutionary Feminist Pedagogy | |
Reflections on Graduate School | |
Education as the Practice of Freedom | |
Class and Education | |
A Feminist Perspective | |
Looking Back | |
Writing Autobiography | |
On Using a Pseudonym | |
Interview | |
Black Women and Feminism reference | |
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