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bell hooks born, 1952

bell hooks (1952-2021)
bell hooks (1952-2021)

On 25 September 1952, influential Black author, social activist, and feminist theorist, bell hooks was born into a working-class family in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, then still racially segregated.

At 19, while going to university, she began writing her first major work: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. She would go on to write over 30 books across her life, touching on subjects such as art, class, community, gender, history, intersectionality, love, mass media, pedagogy, race, sexuality, and more, often critiquing what she termed the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

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