Title: Yearning
Subtitle: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
First published: 1990
Description: "For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire to the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. The result is a poignant collection of essays which, like all of hooks's work, is above all else concerned with transforming oppressive structures of domination"--
Subjects: African Americans, Afro-Americans, Intellectual life, Race identity, African American women, Love, Social conditions, Feminism, Race, Gender identity, Political participation, Cultural policy, African americans, social conditions, Sex role, Politics and culture, Race relations, Identity politics, African americans, intellectual life, African americans, race identity, Political science, united states, United states, race relations, United states, social conditions, 1980-, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Noirs américains, Conditions sociales, Vie intellectuelle, Identité ethnique, Rôle selon le sexe, Féminisme, Politique et culture, Politique identitaire, Relations raciales, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, Women's Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations, Minority Studies, Juvenile Fiction, Prejudices, Human skin color, Pictorial works, Race awareness, Identity (Psychology), Identity (Philosophical concept), Identity, Fiction, Children's fiction, Community life, fiction, Stories in rhyme, Multiculturalism, fiction, African americans--social conditions, African americans--social conditions--1975-, Feminism--united states, Sex role--united states, African americans--intellectual life, African americans--race identity, E185.86 .h742 1990, 305.896/073
Places: United States
Time periods: 1980-