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An edition of Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (1990)

Yearning

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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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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
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Table of Contents

Preface to the new edition
liberation scenes : speak this yearning
the politics of radical black subjectivity
postmodern blackness
the chitlin circuit : on black community
homeplace : a site of resistance
critical interrogation : talking race, resisting racism
reflections on race and sex
representations : feminism and black masculinity
sitting at the feet of the messenger : remembering malcolm x
third world diva girls : politics of feminist solidarity
an aesthetic of blackness : strange and oppositional
aesthetic inheritances : history worked by hand
culture to culture : ethnography and cultural studies as critical intervention
saving black folk culture : zora neale hurston as anthropologist and writer
choosing the margin as a space of radical openness
stylish nihilism : race, sex, and class at the movies
representing whiteness : seeing wings of desire
counter-hegemonic art : do the right thing
a call for militant resistance
seductive sexualities : representing blackness in poetry and on screen
black women and men : partnership in the 1990s
an interview with bell hooks by gloria watkins : no, not talking back, january 1989
a final yearning : january 1990.

Edition Notes

Originally published: Boston, MA : South End Press, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.896/073
Library of Congress
E185.86 .H742 2015, E185.86.H742 2015, E185.86 .H742 2015eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 236 pages
Number of pages
236

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OL27169909M
ISBN 10
1138821748, 1138821756
ISBN 13
9781138821743, 9781138821750
LCCN
2014023245
OCLC/WorldCat
883748300, 892911396

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