Bell Hooks

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Bell Hooks has been many different things over the course of her career. She's long been recognized as an incisive social critic, architect of feminist theory, and campaigner against racism and sexism. She is the author of a number of influential works, among them Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism and Killing Rage: Ending Racism. But she has also written books for children...and essays on art and love. So when I asked her to be my guest on Survival Kit, I was really curious to see which side of her would predominate in her list of the eight items she couldn't live without in the middle of nowhere


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