bell hooks

Amerikaanse filosoof

Gloria Jean Watkins (25 September 1952 – 15 Desember 2021), beter bekend by haar skuilnaam bell hooks,[1] was 'n Amerikaanse skrywer, professor, feminis, en sosiale aktivis. Die naam "bell hooks" is by haar oumagrootjie aan moederskant geleen, Bell Blair Hooks.[2]

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bell hooks in Oktober 2014
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Gloria Jean Watkins

(1952-09-25)25 September 1952
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, V.S.A.
Sterf15 Desember 2021 (op 69)
Berea, Kentucky, V.S.A.
UitbeeldingStanford Universiteit (BA)
Universiteit van Wisconsin–Madison (MA)
Universiteit van Kalifornië, Santa Cruz (PhD)
BeroepSkrywer, akademikus, aktivis
Jare aktief1978–2018
Bekend virOppositional gaze
Notable work
  • Ain't I a Woman? (1981)
  • Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)
  • All About Love: New Visions (2000)
  • We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (2004)
Webwerfbellhooksinstitute.com

Die fokus van haar skryfwerk was die interseksionaliteit van ras, kapitalisme, en geslag, en wat sy beskryf het as hul vermoë om stelsels van onderdrukking en klasoorheersing te produseer en voort te sit. Sy het meer as 30 boeke en talle vakkundige artikels gepubliseer, verskyn in dokumentêre films, en aan openbare lesings deelgeneem.Haar werk het ras, klas, geslag, kuns, geskiedenis, seksualiteit, massamedia en feminisme aangespreek.[3] In 2014, stig sy die bell hooks Institute by Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.[4]

Op 15 Desember 2021 sterf hooks aan nierversaking by haar huis in Berea, Kentucky, op die ouderdom van 69.[5][6]

Toekennings

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  • Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics: The American Book Awards/ Before Columbus Foundation Award (1991)[7]
  • bell hooks: The Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Fund (1994)[8]
  • Happy to Be Nappy: NAACP Image Award nominee (2001)[9]
  • Homemade Love: The Bank Street College Children's Book of the Year (2002)[10]
  • Salvation: Black People and Love: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominee (2002)[11]
  • bell hooks: Utne Reader's "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life"[12][13]
  • bell hooks: The Atlantic Monthly "One of our nation's leading public intellectuals"[12]
  • bell hooks: TIME 100 Women of the Year, 2020[14]

Verwysings

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  1. Dinitia Smith (28 September 2006). "Tough arbiter on the web has guidance for writers". The New York Times. p. E3. But the Chicago Manual says it is not all right to capitalize the name of the writer bell hooks because she insists that it be lower case.
  2. hooks, bell, "Inspired Eccentricity: Sarah and Gus Oldham" in Sharon Sloan Fiffer and Steve Fiffer (eds), Family: American Writers Remember Their Own, New York: Vintage Books, 1996, p. 152.
    hooks, bell, Talking Back, Routledge, 2014 [1989], p. 161.
  3. Hsu, Hua (15 Desember 2021). "The Revolutionary Writing of bell hooks". The New Yorker (in Engels (VSA)). Besoek op 16 Desember 2021.{{cite magazine}}: AS1-onderhoud: url-status (link)
  4. "About the bell hooks institute". bell hooks institute. Geargiveer vanaf die oorspronklike op 25 April 2016. Besoek op 23 April 2016.
  5. Knight, Lucy (15 Desember 2021). "bell hooks, author and activist, dies aged 69". The Guardian. Besoek op 15 Desember 2021.
  6. Risen, Clay (15 Desember 2021). "bell hooks, Pathbreaking Black Feminist, Dies at 69". The New York Times (in Engels (VSA)). ISSN 0362-4331. Besoek op 15 Desember 2021.
  7. "The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation". American Booksellers Association. 2013. Geargiveer vanaf die oorspronklike op 13 Maart 2013. Besoek op 15 Desember 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  8. "10 Writers Win Grants". The New York Times. 22 Desember 1994. Besoek op 15 Desember 2021.
  9. "Happy to Be Nappy". Alkebu-Lan Image. Besoek op 15 Desember 2021.
  10. "bell hooks". The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. Geargiveer vanaf die oorspronklike op 15 Desember 2021. Besoek op 15 Desember 2021.
  11. "Footlights". The New York Times (in Engels (VSA)). 21 Augustus 2002. ISSN 0362-4331. Besoek op 15 Desember 2021.
  12. 12,0 12,1 Rappaport, Scott (25 April 2007). "May 10 bell hooks event postponed". UC Santa Cruz, Regents of the University of California. Besoek op 15 Desember 2021.
  13. "Get to Know bell hooks". The bell hooks center (in Engels (VSA)). Besoek op 15 Desember 2021.
  14. Hampton, Dream (5 Maart 2020). "bell hooks: 100 Women of the Year". Time (in Engels). Besoek op 16 Desember 2021.

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