09/25/1952
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA:
Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.
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Becoming bell hooks (2024) as Self |
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Hillbilly (2018) as Self |
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bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice (2014) as Self |
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Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004) as Self |
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BaadAsssss Cinema (2002) as Self |
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I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America (1998) as Self |
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My Feminism (1997) as Self |
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bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation (1997) as Self |
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Black Is… Black Ain’t (1995) as Self |
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Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004) Novel |