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race, gender, and cultural politics

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Yearning

race, gender, and cultural politics

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"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"--

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Publisher
South End Press
Language
English
Pages
236

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2005, Jump at the Sun
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Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
November 1990, South End Press
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Yearning: race, gender, and cultural politics
1990, South End Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-236).

Published in
Boston, MA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.896/073
Library of Congress
E185.86 .H742 1990, E185.86.H742 1990

The Physical Object

Pagination
236 p. ;
Number of pages
236

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1857934M
Internet Archive
yearningracegend00hook
ISBN 10
0896083861, 0896083853
LCCN
90010196
OCLC/WorldCat
22243427
Library Thing
73913
Goodreads
92812
385655

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Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun was recently made into a film and shown to a mass audience on the PBS series American Playhouse.
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