Yearning

By Bell Hooks, Christopher Raschka

Subjects: Cultural policy, Politique et culture, Sex role--united states, Intellectual life, Conditions sociales, African americans--intellectual life, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Race awareness, Juvenile Fiction, African Americans, Identité ethnique, African americans--social conditions--1975-, Stories in rhyme, Identity (Philosophical concept), Politique identitaire, E185.86 .h742 1990, African americans--social conditions, Féminisme, African American women, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Identity, Afro-Americans, Politics and culture, Pictorial works, Sex role, Prejudices, Race identity, United states, social conditions, 1980-, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African americans--race identity, Feminism, Vie intellectuelle, Minority Studies, Rôle selon le sexe, Love, Fiction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Political science, united states, Children's fiction, African americans, race identity, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Human skin color, Relations raciales, Race, African americans, intellectual life, Identity politics, Gender identity, Social conditions, Identity (Psychology), Feminism--united states, United states, race relations, Noirs américains, Discrimination & Race Relations, Race relations, Multiculturalism, fiction, African americans, social conditions, African American Studies, 305.896/073, Community life, fiction, Political participation

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"--